Design For Death

London : André Deutsch, (1967). First edition. An extraordinary study - part grim, part comic - of the "beautiful, vulgar, frightening and propitiatory things that people make when confronted by that shocking and unwelcome reminder, the death of another". With chapters on the corpse; the shroud; the coffin; the hearse; the floral tributes; printing and the word; the procession; the… Read more about this item

London: Andre Deutsch, 1967. A first edition, first printing published by Andre Deutsch in 1967. A near fine book without inscriptions (small splash mark to fore-edge) in near fine clipped wrapper. Superb dust wrapper design.