VARIOUS [Mid-Century Dust Jacket Design]. A large quantity of circa seventy books depicting a golden age of dust jacket design. Various authors, mostly fiction. 8vos. Most first editions, with some Book Society, Reprint Society, and later impressions mixed in. All volumes retain their splendid dust jackets, and many of the best and most famous designers of the period appear—John Minton, Hans Tisdall, Lynton Lamb, Val Biro, Kenneth Farnhill, Barry Trengrove, Michael Gough, David Knight, Peter Curl, Salim Patel, Eva Najman, John Verney, Freda Nichols, Gerald Wilkinson, Sheila Stratton, Dennis Bailey, Harry Toothill, Ronald Searle, Mervyn Peake, Felix Kelly, John Rose, Artur Barbosa, Peter Rudland, and many others. Most examples are very good or better; a small handful have rather tatty dust jackets, namely Bhowani Junction, which has considerable loss, but most are sharp, clean, and vibrant. None ex-library and all without bookplates, some with brief ink ownership inscriptions, a few with mild foxing, but again, largely very clean indeed. An excellent collection. UK shipping free. International shipping can be arranged.
VARIOUS [Mid-Century Dust Jacket Design]. A large quantity of circa seventy books depicting a golden age of dust jacket design. Various authors, mostly fiction. 8vos. Most first editions, with some Book Society, Reprint Society, and later impressions mixed in. All volumes retain their splendid dust jackets, and many of the best and most famous designers of the period appear—John Minton, Hans Tisdall, Lynton Lamb, Val Biro, Kenneth Farnhill, Barry Trengrove, Michael Gough, David Knight, Peter Curl, Salim Patel, Eva Najman, John Verney, Freda Nichols, Gerald Wilkinson, Sheila Stratton, Dennis Bailey, Harry Toothill, Ronald Searle, Mervyn Peake, Felix Kelly, John Rose, Artur Barbosa, Peter Rudland, and many others. Most examples are very good or better; a small handful have rather tatty dust jackets, namely Bhowani Junction, which has considerable loss, but most are sharp, clean, and vibrant. None ex-library and all without bookplates, some with brief ink ownership inscriptions, a few with mild foxing, but again, largely very clean indeed. An excellent collection. UK shipping free. International shipping can be arranged.
