The Cook by Harry Kressing (Rhinehart and Winston), 1965.
July 01, 2019
Milton Glaser's Early Book Covers
Milton Glaser's early book covers, done not long after he founded Push Pin Studios with Seymour Chwast, served as a kind of laboratory for the techniques and styles he was exploring in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Some covers feature fine, flowing line drawings and swaths of flat, bright colors that prefigure his ground-shaking psychedelic work of the late 1960s. Others contain overt nods to historical artists and art styles (a hallmark of Push Pin). Still others are more abstract or play with the illustrative qualities of type. Book jackets were the bread and butter of Push Pin during this period, and the sheer volume of Glaser's output offers a fascinating window into the inventiveness and adaptability that has always been part of Glaser's genius, even as a young designer.
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (Harper and Row), 1963.
1984 by George Orwell (Signet), 1961.
Giant’s Arrow by Samuel Youd (Simon and Schuster), 1960.
Approaches to Greek Art by Charles Seltman (Dutton), 1960.
Hypnotism by G.H. Estabrooks (Plume), 1959.
Leo Tolstoy: The Years of Development, Volumet I (Vintage Books), 1960.
The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley (Meridian Fiction), 1960. Art directed by Elaine Lustig Cohen.
The Letters of Machiavelli, edited and translated by Allan Gilbert (Capricorn Books), 1961.
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy), 1958.
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton (Capricorn), 1960.
New Maps of Hell by Kingsley Amis (Harcourt Brace), 1960.
Pen-ultimates by Martin E. Marty and Dean Peerman (Holt, Rinehart and Winston), 1963.
The Petty Demon by Fyodor Sologub (Random House), 1962.
The Pleasure Seeker by José Luis de Vilallonga (Simon and Schuster), 1962.
Portrait of an Unknown by Nathalie Sarraute, c. 1960.
The Puzzleheaded Girl by Christina Stead (Holt, Rinehart and Winston), 1967.
Seven Men and Two Others by Max Beerbohm (Vintage Books), 1959.
Varieties of Modern Social Theory by Hendrik M. Ruitenbeek (Dutton), 1963.
Some People by Harold Nicolson (Vintage Books), 1957.
The Territory Ahead by Wright Morris (Atheneum), 1963.