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Wendell Minor : art for the written word : twenty-five years of book cover art / introduction by David McCullough.
LIBRA NC1883.3.M56 M57 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Minor, Wendell.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minor, Wendell--Themes, motives.
- Minor, Wendell.
- Book jackets--United States--Design.
- Book jackets.
- Design.
- Themes, motives.
- United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Minor, Wendell (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 154 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Art for the written word
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Harcourt Brace, [1995]
- Summary:
- Bringing together a rich selection of pieces from Wendell Minor's extraordinary body of jacket art, this volume features commentary from authors and others on the relationship between a book's cover and what's inside. The book includes over 100 full-color reproductions of artwork from the jackets of bestselling books by Ray Bradbury, Mary Higgins Clark, Pat Conroy and others.
- Notes:
- "A Harvest original."
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 signed by the author.
- ISBN:
- 0151956146
- 0156002124
- OCLC:
- 31331558
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