The amazing Alvin Lustig

Some Lustig designed book jackets from New Directions

The Man Who Died by D H Lawrence | Cover design by Alvin Lustig 1947

The Man Who Died by D H Lawrence | Cover design by Alvin Lustig 1947

​Spearhead 1947 | from my library

​dark green, bright red by Gore Vidal | design by Alvin Lustig 1950

'Three Lives' by Gertrude Stein. Cover design by Alvin Lustig via Scott Lindberg on Flickr

E.M. Forster's "The Longest Journey" design by Alvin Lustig. New Directions, 1943. First Edition via

​The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West via flickr

​Exiles by James Joyce. New Directions, 1945. by Scott Lindberg on Flickr.

The Sheltering Sky ​via

​A Season In Hell 1945

Andy Warhol book jackets

didn't realize that Warhol designed book jackets, but here are a couple of really nice ones I came across during my book collecting tear. Maud Noakes is from my own library.

The Adventures of Maud Noakes | Cover Illustration by Andy Warhol 1962

The Adventures of Maud Noakes | Cover Illustration by Andy Warhol 1962

​Pistols for Two by Aaron Marc Stein 1951 via Etsy