THE TRIAL OF 6 DESIGNERS: Designs for Kafka's The Trial by George Salter, P.J. Conkwrite, Merle Armitage, Carl Zahn, Joseph Blumenthal & Marshall Lee
by Salter, George, Marshall Lee et al
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
Lock Haven, PA: Hammermill Paper Company, Lock Haven Division, 1968. Limited edition. Octavo. Six 24-pp sections, in each of which a designer has presented his version of Kafka's The Trial plus an essay by Kenneth Rexroth; Kafka chronology; designers' biographies. Cloth-backed boards with gilt titles. VG, former owner name and date on front free endpaper, edges of covers a bit toned. Each designer was given 24 pages to present their own print version of The Trial complete with endpapers, title page, illustrations and chapter heads. The result is a comparative study of book design, starting with George Salter's original layout for the American edition of The Trial, published in 1937 by Alfred A. Knopf. #266/2500 copies.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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- Carnegie Hill Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011230
- Title
- THE TRIAL OF 6 DESIGNERS: Designs for Kafka's The Trial by George Salter, P.J. Conkwrite, Merle Armitage, Carl Zahn, Joseph Blumenthal & Marshall Lee
- Author
- Salter, George, Marshall Lee et al
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Hammermill Paper Company, Lock Haven Division
- Place of Publication
- Lock Haven, PA
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Graphic Design Publishing Limited Franz Kafka
- Bookseller catalogs
- Graphic Design; 60's; Books on Books;
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
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- Title Page
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- VG
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- Octavo
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