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Vintage Crime: Chandler: The Big Sleep

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Front cover, green-toned photographic image of three-quarter view of back of man's head with hair slicked back driving a vintage-style convertable car on a bridge with right hand on steering wheel. Upper left, rectangle with author's first name in upper half in purple text on beige and author's last name in lower half in beige on purple. Thick seafoam green band along lower edge of cover with two lines of book review in dark green text. Superimposed on top of green band and part of photograph, vertical dark green rectangle outlined in beige with title on two lines in pale blue text. Back coveron upper right, vertical dark green rectangle outlined in beige containing title in pale blue text superimposed on top of large seafoam green square with ninteen lines of book review in dark green text, all on dark green border. On vertical upper left of border, Vintage Crime logo with lizard, all in beige text. Spine, dark green with author's first name in beige tex, last name in thicker beige text. Title in light blue text and Vintage Crime logo with lizard in beige text.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Designer
Keith Sheridan
Credit Line
Gift of Steven Heller
Medium
offset lithography
Dimensions
20.4mm x 28mm
Object Name
Book cover
Type
Book cover
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