Louis Pasteur, Free Lance of Science

Rene Jules Dubos
Little Brown and Company, 1950
Jacket design

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in a Changing Metropolis)

Night and the Cat

Elizabeth Coatsworth
Macmillan, 1950

(Next post on Friday: The Adventures of the Redcrosse Knight)

East of Home

Santha Rama Rau
Harper & Brothers, 1950
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(Next post on Friday: Book-of-the-Month Club Invitation)

Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh

Irving Stone, Editor
Doubleday, 1950
Jacket design
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(Next post: China’s Long March)

1950 Book Jacket Designers Guild Exhibition

The Third Annual Exhibition of Book Jackets
April 17 to June 16, 1950
A-D Gallery, New York City

Book Jacket Designers Guild
Jeanyee Wong, Chairman

“The Book Jacket” by George Salter
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1948 Book Jacket Designers Guild Exhibition

1949 Book Jacket Designers Guild Exhibition
1953 Book Jacket Designers Guild Exhibition

(Next post May 20: The Boy in the Rooftop School)

The Sky River

Chang Fa-shun
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1950
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