THE COSMOLOGIAL EYE: New Diretions
1939
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042Leaving off the title and author from the front of the jacket was a radial, if dangerous, idea in1939

JACKETS REQUIRED An History of Amerian Book Jacket Design1920-1950
: Steven Heller / Seymour Chwast
757.2 / H51-4
published by Chronicle Books
1995 by Steven Heller and Seymour Chwast
@ THE CASE OF THE BLACK-EYED BLONDE: Grasset & Dunlap
1944
unknown
043Illustrated with a sensational painting of a victimized woman, this jacket, like other Perry Mason classics, sells on sex appeal.

JACKETS REQUIRED An History of Amerian Book Jacket Design1920-1950
: Steven Heller / Seymour Chwast
757.2 / H51-4
published by Chronicle Books
1995 by Steven Heller and Seymour Chwast
LEAVE CANCELLED: Alfred A. Knopf
1945
Paul Rand
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44This love story about a soldier's return to the front is unconventionally represented with an angel/ cupid (representing love) and die cut "billet" holes suggesting the book's wartime setting. Yet nothing about the design of this jacket reveals the time period in which it was produced.

JACKETS REQUIRED An History of Amerian Book Jacket Design1920-1950
: Steven Heller / Seymour Chwast
757.2 / H51-4
published by Chronicle Books
1995 by Steven Heller and Seymour Chwast