Category Archives: 50 Phenomenal Illustrated Books

September 14, 2009

Paris by Night

By Brassaï, with an introduction by Paul Morand, 1933 Cover of the first edition of Paris by Night, published in 1933 by Art et Metiers Graphiques. The book is 250 x 190 mm and spiral-bound. Copies of the first edition sell for approximately $5000 dollars. Before the publication of Paris by Night no one had heard of [...]
Posted on September 14, 2009 in 50 Phenomenal Illustrated Books by Sara Angel
September 7, 2009

Allure

By Diana Vreeland with Christopher Hemphill, 1980 The front cover of Allure, first published by Doubleday & Company in 1980. Underneath the book’s dust jacket, the book boasts red linen cloth boards embossed with Diana Vreeland’s initials. The book is 11” x 15” and 208 pages. “A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I [...]
Posted on September 7, 2009 in 50 Phenomenal Illustrated Books by Sara Angel
September 2, 2009

S,M,L,XL

By Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau, 1996 . S,M,L,XL (Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large) by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau. The book was first published in 1996 by The Monacelli Press, and sold for $75. On the subject of remarkable collaborations between authors and book designers (see my last posting), the 1996 publication S,M,L,XL (Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large) [...]
Posted on September 2, 2009 in 50 Phenomenal Illustrated Books by Sara Angel
August 28, 2009

The Medium Is the Massage

By Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, 1968 The front cover of The Medium Is the Massage When The Medium Is the Massage was published in 1968 it was derided for having too few words per page and no table of contents. Yet it wasn’t long before the edition became a landmark of contemporary book design. Unlike other illustrated [...]
Posted on August 28, 2009 in 50 Phenomenal Illustrated Books by Sara Angel