Book Cover, New Directions 15. An anthology of new directions in prose and poetry. International Issue

This is a Book cover. It was graphic design by Alvin Lustig. It is dated 1955 and we acquired it in 2001. Its medium is lithograph on thick glossy paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Susan Lustig Peck.

Its dimensions are

21.9 x 26.7 cm (8 5/8 x 10 1/2 in. )

It is signed

Signature printed, lower right: lustig.

It is inscribed

Printed in white ink, front cover upper left: New Directions; lower right: An anthology of/new directions in prose and poetry/International issue/M 18/$1.35; lower left: published by New Directions and the Noonday Press. Printed in yellow ink, front cover upper right: 1; lower left: A MERIDIAN BOOK. Printed in orange ink, front cover upper right: 5. Printed vertically in white ink, side cover: New Directions; printed horizontally in white ink: M 18. Printed vertically in yellow ink, side cover: 1/MERIDIAN BOOKS. Printed vertically in orange ink, side cover: 5. Printed in orange ink, back cover upper right: 15. Printed in black ink, back cover: New Directions/An anthology of/new directions in prose and poetry/International issue/This volume is the fifteenth in a series of anthologies/which began to appear in 1936. Since that first issue,/which presented work by Pound and Stein, Cummings/and Cocteau, New Directions has grown on the theory/that literature – and, in fact, culture itself – goes dead/when there is no experiment. Writers of other lands,/and especially those of Asia, are represented in New/Directions 15 in the hope that there can be estab-/lished and maintained through arts and letters a com-/mon meeting ground for intercultural understanding,/the “world literature” of which Goethe dreamed./“New Directions lives up to its intention, that of/presenting fresh, explorative, and unstereotyped/writing.” THE NEW YORK TIMES/“The literary life of this country owes a great deal/to James Laughlin and his New Directions… He/has deliberately looked not for the commercially suc-/cessful but for the imaginatively original.”/THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE/All Meridian Books are Smyth-Sewn for Durability.

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