Roy Kuhlman: Reluctant Modernist

Available from Fantagraphics when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

The first ever collection of the groundbreaking design of Grove Press designer Roy Kuhlman. The legacy of Grove Press is well known within literary circles: how Barney Rosset bought a fledgling but failing publishing company in the early 1950s and changed the world of letters in America, and perhaps the very culture as well. Grove Press brought to national prominence the writers, art, and artists of the avant-garde. Equally innovative, and ultimately as influential, Grove Press book covers refle