[Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980.
Price: $750.00
Unbound. Original non-pictorial calligraphic design by Paul Bacon (unsigned) painted on a 6.75" x 10". sheet of mylar, laid over white paper, affixed with masking tape onto thin artist's board. Very near fine. Housed in a manilla envelope with a note in an unknown hand (possibly Bacon's): "Theroux cover - (Note the 'tape job' is my doing. It looks fine once it's matted, but the mat was too big to include here...)" With a finished copy of the first edition, indicating Bacon as the designer. Bacon was one of the most prolific and best-known jacket designers of the second half of the 20th century and designed the jackets for *Compulsion, Catch-22, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Rosemary's Baby, Slaughterhouse-Five, Portnoy's Complaint* and innumerable others.
Item #502489
