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1960

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1993

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Book Cover, The Ideal Reader: Selected Essays by Jacques Rivière

This is a Book cover. It was designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen. It is dated 1960 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is lithograph on off-white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

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

Its dimensions are

H x W: 18.1 x 23.4 cm (7 1/8 x 9 3/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in white, vertically, front cover lower right: Elaine Lustig; in white, front cover upper left: The Ideal Reader / Selected Essays by / Jacques Rivière; in white, front cover lower left: Edited, translated, / and introduced by / Blanche A. Price / with a preface by Henri Peyre / MERIDIAN BOOKS M103 $1.45

Cite this object as

Book Cover, The Ideal Reader: Selected Essays by Jacques Rivière; Designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen (American, 1927–2016); USA; lithograph on off-white wove paper; H x W: 18.1 x 23.4 cm (7 1/8 x 9 3/16 in.); Gift of Tamar Cohen and Dave Slatoff; 1993-31-43

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