- Published: 7 December 2020
- ISBN: 9780399581021
- Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 292
- RRP: $100.00
The Look of the Book
Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature
- Published: 7 December 2020
- ISBN: 9780399581021
- Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 292
- RRP: $100.00
Praise for Cover: "In the past decade, Mr. Mendelsund has designed about 600 book jackets, ranging from a sober, sophisticated cover for Tolstoy's War and Peace to his whimsical Pop Art-like treatment of Kafka's novella Metamorphosis, to the hypnotic fluorescent swirls on Stieg Larsson's thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." --New York Times "Cover is foremost a visually enticing tour of some of the most important books of recent times, made even more memorable by Mendelsund's daring covers." --Washington Post Praise for What We See When We Read: "A playful, illustrated treatise on how words give rise to mental images." --Alexandra Alter, New York Times "Mendelsund, throughout this thought-provoking book, helps the lay reader contemplate text in ways you hadn't thought about previously." --Los Angeles Times "A welcome and fascinating new book." --New York Review of Books