Object Details
- Description
- Book cover design for The Woman from Sarajevo by Ivo Andric, published by Alfred A. Knopf. Cover features bands of black and yellow in a herringbone pattern with white bands at top for title and author name printed in black. Printed in black, against yellow, lower left: A novel by the winner of the / 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature, / translated from the Serbo-Croatian by / Joseph Hitrec. Spine containing a black and yellow checkerboard pattern appears along the left side. The title of the publication appears near the top in yellow against a black background, with the author's name directly below in black against a yellow background. The publisher and logo are printed in yellow against black at the bottom of the spine.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Herbert Bayer, (American, born Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985)
- Author
- Ivo Andric, Yugoslav, 1892–1975
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, USA
- Date
- 1965
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.7 × 17.9 cm (8 9/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Book cover
- Type
- Book cover
