Wendell Minor: Art for the Written Word: Twenty-Five Years of Book Cover Art Harvest Books ( 01 September, 1995 ) Book Our Price : £ 16.91 Prices subject to change. we are currently unable to offer this title. It may be out of stock with the publisher or out of print. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.

Literary billboards.

A comprehensive look at book jacket design from the twenties to the nineties. The book only covers fiction and is divided into themed spreads with between five and nine covers on each. Author Powers writes detailed captions to each cover as well as providing short essays on each decade and genre. Nearly three hundred covers are shown in this well designed and printed book, none of them are angled or overlap other covers. As the title covers the last eighty years there is not much opportunity to show lots of great covers in the same style put out by some English publishers, only two examples are shown of the unique designs created by Brian Cook for Batsford in the thirties and although there are several Penguin paperbacks included I would liked to have seen more. Actually Penguins should have a book all to themselves, the company has published hundreds of titles with knockout covers. Most of the jackets were designed in the UK but there is a good showing of well designed US covers. There are some pulp fiction and thriller covers apart from the literary stuff. A very similar book with 270 American covers is Jackets Required by Steven Heller and Seymour Chwast, covering jacket design from 1920 thru 1950 and if you have both these books it will make an excellent visual record of some of the best twentieth century fiction

Great reference

This is a great book for the book designer & book lover alike. As an illustrator/designer I would have preferred more up-to-date design and less archive stuff but there is a good mix for a more general reader. Well worth the money

Subjective and inconsistent rabbit-training tips.

Dangerous and misleading notions abound in Ms. Hunters Hop to It, including: bunnies can never get electrocuted when they chew electrical wires (they can), and bunnies should be fasted before surgery (they shouldnt). There is, however, some good, basic (stress: basic) advice contained in this small tome, which is surprising, as it seems most of the info is gleaned from her own experience WITH ONLY ONE RABBIT. Therefore, this predominately anecdotal book serves more as a photo-journal of the author and her own rabbit, than a comprehensive, authoratative, and objective training guide about rabbits in general. Stick with the superior House Rabbit Handbook, by Marinell Harriman, instead.