Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Daily Book Graphics #192 / Psychopathology of Everyday Life

First printing 1951, this printing 1961. It looks like Dad is about to lose it.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Daily Book Graphics #190 / Let There Be Rock

I'm a day behind on DBG postings (I'm back dating them, so it all appears seamless), I'll probably catch up tomorrow. I am super busy at the moment, with multiple deadlines and a show approaching. In any case, this book, published in 1968 provides a step by step guide to forming a rock group. I found it at a thrift store, but it originally came from a public library in Burlington, Ontario. I checked out the Wikipedia page for Burlington to see if any future rock stars could have once checked out this book, but unfortunately there are no significant rock stars from Burlington. Jacket design: Robert Pliskin/Barrington Smith

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Daily Book Graphics #189 / Architects on Architecture

This cover didn't quite fit on the scanner bed so there is a bit more black to the cover than appears here. ©1966, Jacket design by DeMartin-Marona and Associates, Inc.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Daily Book Graphics #188 / Field Guide to Mammals





The images above are from the 1976 edition of the Roger Tory Peterson Guide to Mammals. Below is the cover of the fifth printing of the 1952 original. The color plates are largely the same in both books. Someday I would like to have the entire 1970s RTP series.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Daily Book Graphics #187 / The Strange Story of Our Earth




This book has the appearance of having been published in the late Pleistocene, but actually it was 1952, this printing 1961. I love the subtitle: From the birth of the world to man's possession of it.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Daily Book Graphics #186 / Mila 18

©1961 / Jacket design Al Nagy, Jacket drawing: Harlan Krakowitz