Object Details
- Description
- Book jacket design for The Red Lances by Arturo Uslar Pietri, published by Alfred A. Knopf. Front cover design features a portion of a map of Venezuela printed in black. Illustrated red flames emanate from the map's center. Title and author information appear at top in black and red. Spine includes title printed vertically in red, the author's name in black, and the publisher's name and logo in black and red at the bottom. Flap design on right contains descriptive text about the book printed in black. Verso contains a biography of the author on the left and a black and white photographic image of the author at right.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Herbert Bayer, (American, born Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985)
- Author
- Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan, 1906–2001
- Harriet de Onis, American, 1899–1969
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, USA
- Date
- 1963
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on glossy white paper
- Dimensions
- 21.1 × 28.5 cm (8 5/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
- Open: 21.1 × 52.5 cm (8 5/16 × 20 11/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Book cover
- Type
- Book cover
