Amerika
Flipping through the excellent By its Cover1 I noticed a familar
cover design, credited to Alvin Lustig for the New Directions edition of
Kafka's Amerika. However I had never seen this book—instead, I own the
Picador paperback of the Bret Easton Ellis collection The Informers (I
would swap). A nice design quotation, probably lost on everyone besides
book design aficionados and
those—like me—who happen to stumble upon it2.
There's a very nice website on Lustig, which at one time was selling prints of this cover, along with some of his other New Directions designs. Unfortunately, they are all sold out…
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Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger, By its Cover, Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, 2005. ↩
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I am not the first to notice. See http://www.totalcardboard.com/book_cover_gallery.htm. ↩