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(DESIGN / BOOK JACKETS / ALVIN LUSTIG.) New Directions, New Classic Series. 17 volumes, each with covers designed by Alvin Lustig. Small 8vo, cloth; dust jackets mostly clean with a minimum of edgewear. Norfolk, Ct., 1944-55
Influenced by the work of artists such as Paul Klee, Joan Miró and Mark Rothko, Lustig experimented with mixing unique symbols into his visual vocabulary. "It is obvious that the series of jacket designs, which Alvin Lustig has made for my New Classics books, is a constant pleasure to the eye. There is nothing in the book world today, which compares with them for color, for variety, for life, for appeal to the intelligence. His beautiful designs are helping to make a mass audience aware of high quality reading." - James Laughlin, New Directions, 1947. Series numbers and titles include: 1: Williams, William Carlos, In the American Grain, 2: Rimbaud, A Season in Hell, 4: Forster, E. M. The Longest Journey, 7: Flaubert, Three Tales by Flaubert, 10: Kafka, Franz, Amerika, 11: Barnes, Djuna, Nightwood, 12: Patchen, Kenneth,Selected Poems, 13: Joyce, James,Exiles, 16: Fournier, Alain, The Wanderer, 20: Boyle, Kay, Monday Night, 23: Williams, Tennessee, The Glass Menagerie, 25: Owen, Wilfred, Poems, 26: Williams, William Carlos, Paterson, 28: Mallarme, Stephane, Poems,29: West, Nathanael, The Day of the Locust, 34: Hesse, Hermann, Siddhartha, 36: Garcia Lorca, Gabriel, Selected Poems. See image of other covers in web catalogue at swanngalleries.com.
