How To Do It Number 65: Designing A Book Jacket by Curl, Peter

London & New York: Studio Publications, [1956]. 4to. 96 pp. Colour frontisp., numerous colour plates, black & white plates, illustrating over 100 dustjackets. Red boards, black lettering on spine (minor dustsoiling, shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of book jacket by Peter Curl (toning to fore-edges, minor chipping head of spine, couple minor closed tears), still VG/VG- copy. First edition of this informative Mid-Century Modern work detailing the elements of typography, photography, pattern, pen & ink sketch, or full colour illustration allow the commercial artist to quickly produce book jackets without technical difficulties.

London and New York: The Studio Publications, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. Peter Curl. Small 4to. Pp. 96. Red textured cloth, titles printed in black on the spine. Frontis. black & white photo reproductions of Curl jacket designs on red background. Illustrated throughout with black & white and color reproductions (over 100) and drawings. In the three-color illustrated dust jacket, unclipped (25s net). Spine ends and back upper corner bumped, dent in back fore edge. Jacket edges just a trifle rubbed. A bright copy. Practical, business and technical aspects of this niche of commercial art are covered with plenty of examples from the author and other mid-century designers, mostly British. An image of the dust jacket is featured in Martin Salisbury's The Illustrated Dust Jacket, p. 8. The dust jacket is now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

The Studio Publications, 1956T. hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. Cover shows signs of age and wear. Page 93: bottom right-hand corner creased. Generally good condition considering its age.