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Book Cover, Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality, 1959

This is a Book cover. It was designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen. It is dated 1959 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is offset lithograph on 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: 21.3 × 49.8 cm (8 3/8 × 19 5/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in white, spine: PRETEXTS; in black, spine: Andre Gide Greenwich / Meridian; in black, vertically, front cover lower left: elaine lustig; in black, front cover top: PRETEXTS / Reflections on Literature and Morality / Andre Gide; front cover bottom: essays from Pretextes, Nouveaux / Pretextes, Divers & Incidences / selected, edited, and introduced by / JUSTIN O'BRIEN

Cite this object as

Book Cover, Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality, 1959; Designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen (American, 1927–2016); offset lithograph on paper; H x W: 21.3 × 49.8 cm (8 3/8 × 19 5/8 in.); Gift of Tamar Cohen and Dave Slatoff; 1993-31-6

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