Complete Book of Covers from the New Yorker: 1925-1989

by The New Yorker

Book Overview

This is more than just an art book. It's also a social and graphic history of the last 64 years. It is a book that shows how we have changed--and it will fascinate and delight artists and designers. 3,292 illustrations in full color.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394578414
• ISBN13: 9780394578415
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 6.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 12.4" x 14.7"

Customer Reviews

Eustace and the 3,277 cover versions

This very large book is sort of redundant now that you can buy 'The Complete New Yorker' (ISBN 1400064740) on eight DVDs and see every cover and page from 4,109 issues. I'll most likely buy the DVDs too, if only to be able to see the covers large and also to have a look at all the ads from the first February 21, 1925 copy onwards. Still, being able to see the covers on screen is not really the same as opening this lovely book and flipping through the pages. Each year starts on a spread with a selected cover big on the left, the right has a couple of covers above a list of issue dates and the relevant artist, the next two spreads from each year display twenty-four covers 3.25 by 2.5 inches wide and I think this is a reasonable size to appreciate the artwork and follow your favorites. The New Yorker is probably the only consumer magazine not to have changed its cover design since the start, even the National Geographic eventually junked their yellow border for a more contemporary look. Because the NY doesn't have cover lines the format still works, even down to using the logo typeface designed in the Twenties by the first Art Editor Rea Irvin. This book is just delightful and you can slowly look through the pages and enjoy the amazing range of artists and styles, the whimsy of Mary Petty or the hard line graphics of Gretchen Dow Simpson. Whoever did the cover the quality is always maintained. ***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.