Faber and Faber: Eighty Years of Book Cover Design

Joseph Connolly

ISBN 10: 0571240011 / ISBN 13: 9780571240012

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2009

About this Item

2009 Faber Paperback 1st Edition 1st Impression. Near fine with wonderful cover design & illustrations as shown. Superior Paperback bound in sections.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1524387674490

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Faber and Faber: Eighty Years of Book Cover Design
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571240011
• ISBN 13: 9780571240012
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 2W x 21H x 28D centimeters 2 centimeters width by 21 centimeters height by 28 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1226 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fine Art and Design
  • Illustrated
  • British Art

About this title

Synopsis

Joseph Connolly - book collector, antiquarian dealer, and acclaimed novelist - has compiled an impassioned guide and love letter to the designers, artists and authors at the heart of Faber's design story. From its beginnings in the 1920s and 1930s on to the classic years of innovation under Berthold Wolpe after the War, and from the celebrated period of collaboration with Pentagram on to the modern day, here is, as he concludes in his preface, 'a lavish celebration of the art and beauty of these magnificent covers, from just the first eighty years'. Even gazing at these so slim spines, I was taken. And at the foot of each one, the word Faber. The vitality of the design, even on these very narrow spines, compelled me to slide out the books. And the covers! Oh my goodness, the covers...the color, strength and typography were not at all brash, but merely dynamic: here, I thought, was splendor. And it was the covers that encouraged me to open the books. And to read. And then to discover.

About the Author

Joseph Connolly is the best-selling author of Poor Souls, This Is It, Stuff, Summer Things, Winter Breaks, S.O.S., It Can't Go On, The Works, Love is Strange and Jack the Lad and Bloody Mary. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including admired biographies of Jerome K. Jerome and P. G. Wodehouse.