Object Details
- Description
- Book jacket design for The Klondike Fever by Pierre Berton, published by Alfred A. Knopf. The front cover design at right features a gold geometric form radiating gold lines at lower right against a black background. Printed text in red, above: THE / KLONDIKE / FEVER / The Life and Death of THE LAST GREAT GOLD RUSH / BY PIERRE BERTON / The complete epic story– / told for the first time in all / its grandeur and sweep– / with much fascinating / new material. Spine is at center and consists of the title and author's name at top and the publisher's name and logo at bottom in red. A radiating gold form appears on the spine above the publisher's logo. Back cover is at left and consists of the text "PIERRE BERTON'S" at top and "ALFRED A. KNOPF, PUBLISHER, NEW YORK" at bottom in red; a black printed description of the publication covers the rest of the back cover. Verso: Consists of left and right flaps with black printed text describing the publication. Printed in red, top of left flap: THE KLONDIKE FEVER / BY PIERRE BERTON. Price is at top right of left flap.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Herbert Bayer, (American, born Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985)
- Author
- Pierre Berton, Canadian, 1920–2004
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, USA
- Date
- 1958
- 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
- 21.6 × 33.5 cm (8 1/2 × 13 3/16 in.)
- Open: 21.6 × 53.2 cm (8 1/2 × 20 15/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Book cover
- Type
- Book cover
