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Mr. Munchausen: An Account of Some of His Recent Adventures by John Kendrick Bangs.Published by Noyes, Platt and Company, 1901

Illustrated by Peter Newell

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The Hot Jazz Trio by William Kotzwinkle published by Houghton Mifflin 1989.

Jacket illustrated and designed by Joe Servello

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Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books. Edited by Jo Steffens and Featuring an essay by Walter Benjamin. Published by Yale University Press in association with Urban Center Books in 2009.

Book designed by Michael Bierut and Yve Ludwig, Pentagram Design

“Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine?”

Mrs. Murphy’s Underpants by Frederic Brown. Published by E.P. Dutton & Co. in 1963

Jacket Design by Appelbaum & Curtis

Edward Gorey dust jacket. Cultural Slag by Felicia Lamport. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1966

Shining Morning Face: The Childhood of Lance by Lawrence Hanson
Published by George Allen & Unwin in 1948

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Demos the Emperor: A Secular Oratorio by Osbert Sitwell. Published 1949. Cover illustration by H[arry]. Cowdell, in-house designer at Macmillan

Graphic Design in Germany: 1890-1945 by Jeremy Aynsley, Published by University of California Press in 2000. 

‘First account in the English language of the emergence of German graphic design between 1890 and 1945.’

From an illustration by Maurice Sendak that appears in Swine Lake published by Michael di Capua Books / Harper Collins in 1999.

Broadside

Warning Signs by Gwendolyn Brooks

Full Text:

“Gwendolyn Tamika Elizabeth Brooks (1917 – 2000) grew up in Bronzeville, a neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side where she “wrote about what I saw and heard on the street.” Brooks published her first poem at age 13, and by 17 was a regular contributor to “Chicago Defender’s” poetry column. Her first book, “A Street in Bronzeville,” was published in 1945, bringing critical acclaim and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1950 she became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for her second book, “Annie Allen.” After attending a Black Writer’s Conference at Fisk University in 1967, Brooks said she “rediscovered her blackness,” reflected through “In The Mecca,” a book-length poem about a mother’s search for her child lost in a Chicago housing project. Her work became leaner, more sharply focused, and she committed to publish only with independent African-American presses. Declaring “I want to write poems that will be non-compromising,” Brooks continued to confront issues of race, gender and class.

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