Not much is known about Janet Halverson, who designed the book covers for titans of the 20th century literary scene: She was born in Maine in 1926; spent her youth in New Haven; worked in New York ...

Book Review. Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel. By Edwin Frank Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 480 pages, $33 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a ...

The box set features new cover art for each book and details like fore-edge paintings and a wraparound box. 'Twilight' Book Gets 20th Anniversary Release, Featuring Three Editions.

Min Jin Lee’s Indelible Twentieth-Century Women The “Pachinko” author recommends four novels that present character studies of bold women making their way in changing times. February 19, 2025 ...

THE VICAR'S DAUGHTER—E. H. Young —Harcourt Brace ($2.50). In 1873 a Boston firm published The Vicar's Daughter "for we need just such simple, pure and cheerful stories here in America, where ...

A popular 20th-century book has finally been returned to an Ohio public library, and it’s only 98 years late. “Wild West” by Bertrand Sinclair first hit the shelf at the Price Hill branch of ...

Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the big, bold, blocky text covers; the abstract image covers; the hand-drawn lettering in twee frame covers; the ...

She drew from early-twentieth-century typography; ... and to look different from other books. In those days, “covers simply weren’t a priority,” Fisketjon said in an interview with the blog ...

In April, the National Library of France removed four 19th century books, all published in Great Britain, from its shelves because the covers were likely laced with arsenic.The books have been ...

At first controversial, ‘The Yellow Book’ method caught on, and by the early 20th century book cover design was an established art form. Two versions of the Yellow Book Wikimedia.

Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the big, bold, blocky text covers; the abstract image covers; the hand-drawn lettering in twee frame covers; the ...