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Vox

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Front cover depicts, on black ground, the title "Vox" in gray superimposed on a black X. Above the title, centered on the "O," is the phrase, "A NOVEL BY NICHOLSON BAKER," in yellow and pink, read vertically. Front cover leaf gives a short summary of the book. Printed on the spine, at the top, is the author's name in pink overlaying the title in gray and at the bottom is the Random House colophon. The back cover shows several quotes of praise for other books by the same author. Back cover leaf includes the phrase "ABOUT THE AUTHOR," followed by a short paragraph on the author's life.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Designer
Deborah Aiges, American, b. 1948
Deborah DeStaffan
Eric Leonard
Publisher
Random House, New York, New York, USA
Author
Nicholson Baker, American, b. 1957
Date
1992
Credit Line
Gift of Steven Heller
Medium
Lithograph on paper
Dimensions
20.4 × 48 cm (8 1/16 × 18 7/8 in.)
Type
graphic design
Object Name
Book cover
Type
Book cover
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