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1963

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2016

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2019

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Book Cover, Selected Poems by John Crowe Ransom

This is a Book cover. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and published by Alfred A. Knopf. It is dated 1963 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors.

Its dimensions are

21.8 × 29.9 cm (8 9/16 × 11 3/4 in.) Open: 21.8 × 50.9 cm (8 9/16 × 20 1/16 in.)

It is signed

Printed in light blue ink, verso, bottom of left flap: JACKET DESIGN BY HERBERT BAYER; verso, right flap, underneath photo: PHOTO: JAMES R. DEAVER

It is inscribed

Printed in light blue ink, verso, bottom right of left flap: 6/63; vertically, verso, lower left of right flap: PRINTED IN U.S.A.

Cite this object as

Book Cover, Selected Poems by John Crowe Ransom; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Published by Alfred A. Knopf; offset lithograph on paper; 21.8 × 29.9 cm (8 9/16 × 11 3/4 in.) Open: 21.8 × 50.9 cm (8 9/16 × 20 1/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-257

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