Words and Their Meanings - SIGNED copy
Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin, 1940. Alvin Lustig. Limited Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 28. Lustig decorations in red on the title and p. 7. Light gray laid paper-covered boards, Lustig illustration printed in red and dark gray on the front board, titles in dark gray on the spine: boards and leaves a tad age-toned. In the Lustig illustrated dust jacket printed red and dark gray on light gray laid paper: Spine sunned, age-toned, short, closed tears at the spine head and top edge. Please see photos. Signed by Huxley beneath the colophon. One of "100 copies specially printed for Jake Zeitlin May 1940" at the Ward Ritchie Press. Very Good / Very Good. Item #6055 Referenced on pp. 36 and 40 in Born Modern The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig by Heller and Cohen-Lustig. Dust jacket preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Addressed to educators, an essay on the moral discipline of language use. Lustig's design evoking facets or folds was created with letterpress decorations. In Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig, authors Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger cite the "stark juxtaposition of the author's signature, isolated for greater effect, and an abstract configuration of shapes, referring to the inherent complexities found in systems of writing and their organizational syntax."
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