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    Artist

  • Salter, George, 1897-1967, artist

    • Title

  • Dust jacket design for: Carrington : / design by George Salter

  • Physical Description

    1 online resource (1 dust jacket) : color

  • Date

    1960

  • Notes

    Dust jacket design: Carrington :a novel of the West / by Michael Straight. First edition. New York : Knopf, 1960. A Borzoi book

  • Summary

    The cover design features a brown, desolate landscape with the peaks of mountains off in the distance. The brown landscape stretches across the entire front cover a spine. Most of the features of the landscape are indistinct, except for a mountain range outlined in white. At the base of a mountain range is the small black, white and gold rectangle of a fort and a tiny American flag. Three golden arrows are angled on the left side. Centered on the front cover in large, bold, yellow stencil-style font is the title. Beneath the title and to the left is the subtitle in small black, typographical font, all capital letters. Next to the subtitle is a sword resting on an open book. At the bottom of the front cover is the author’s name printed in a large, thin, white almost cursive font. The title, author’s name, and publisher are printed again on the spine, bordered on either side by yellow, horizontal lines and centered in the middle. At the top is the title in large, white stencil-style font. Beneath the title is the author’s name in a white, slightly cursive font. At the bottom is the publisher’s name is white, cursive letters, and just above it is the publisher’s symbol in black and white.

  • Depicted

    Straight, Michael Whitney, Carrington

  • Subject

    Fetterman Fight, Wyo., 1866, Fiction; Indians of North America, Fiction; Book design, United States; Book jackets, United States

  • Medium

    Book jackets; Book design

  • Part Of

    Library of Book Designs by George Salter (1897-1967)

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Biographical/Historical Information

George Salter (1897-1967) was a noted American and German book designer. Born and raised in an affluent German-Jewish family, Salter began his artistic career primarily as a set designer in Berlin, working for such prestigious theaters as the Prussian State Opera and the Berliner Volksoper. He began to focus on commercial book design in the late 1920s and had produced 350 designs by 1934, when he fled Nazi Germany. When he arrived in New York, his work was already known thanks to an exhibit, in late 1933, at Columbia University mounted by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, curator of the University’s Rare Book Department. Salter’s designs were widely sought after by American publishers, and he received a steady flow of design commissions. His beautifully drawn and lettered jackets served as an elegant window into the works of renowned authors such as Albert Camus, John Dos Passos, and Thomas Mann. George Salter was elected to membership at the Grolier Club in 1951. Between 1937 and 1967, he also taught at the Cooper Union in New York, where he offered courses in calligraphy and lettering. In the US, he worked for eighty-nine different publishers, ultimately creating at least 715 different book jackets. Salter’s creations encompassed a wide array of styles and media. His work exhibited exquisite craftsmanship, as well as balance between typography and images. Salter found influence in such art movements as the Russian constructivists, the Bauhaus school, and the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk of the German Jugendstil. George Salter’s work has become the benchmark by which contemporary book design is still measured today.

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Salter, George: Dust jacket design for: Carrington : / design by George Salter, Leo Baeck Institute, st 4610 Salter v. 202 Book design.