FROM time to time, it’s good to help your books out of their dust jackets. Just to see what’s underneath. Judging the books below, it’s worth giving dust a chance. Without ISBNs, blurbs, the name of the publisher and so on, these covers are linen deserts with typographic oases.

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1 New York, Amphoto, 1970

2 AIA Guide to New York City, The Macmillan Company, 1967

3 Drawing When How, Arthur Niggli Ltd., 1965

4 Haïti, Focus Publishing, 1996

5 Paradise Lost, Phaidon, 2008

6 Alex Katz, Abrams, 1979

7 Planning For Industry, Art & Education, Bruna, 1970

8 Grosse Designers In Der Werbegrafik USA I, Schuler Verlagsgesellschaft, 1971

9 Grosse Designers In Der Werbegrafik USA II, Schuler Verlagsgesellschaft, 1971

10 Modern Publicity 37, Studio Vista, 1967

11 Modern Publicity  1973/74, Studio Vista, 1973

12 De Grote Bosatlas, Wolters-Noordhof, 1971

13 Something Greek…, 1969