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  • We acquired this object.

1952

  • Work on this object began.

1962

  • Work on this object ended.

2013

2025

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Book Cover, New Directions in Prose and Poetry, 16, ca. 1957

This is a Book cover. It was designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen and made for (as the client) New Directions Books. It is dated ca. 1957. Its medium is offset lithograph on white wove paper.

This object was donated by Tamar Cohen. It is credited Gift of Tamar Cohen and Dave Slatoff.

Its dimensions are

18.3 x 11.7 cm (7 3/16 x 4 5/8 in.)

It is signed

Imprinted in black ink, in script, lower left: e. lustig + barrows

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