4x4 (Grove Press, 1962)
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
on May 23rd, 2021. Artwork published in
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4×4 is the title of a compilation of four erotic novellas, published by Grove Press in 1962. Each pair of title and author’s name is set in a different typeface, with alternating line colors. The chosen typefaces are Smoke for Stairway to the Sea by Thomas Firth Jones, Art Gothic for This Night in Sodom by Charles Jules Reiter, Grant No. 2 for Custom by John Schultz, and Italic Ornate for The Apostate Heriger by Anthony Shafton. All four designs have roots in the 19th century, and all were included in the Morgan Press Collection, a series of revivals of wood and foundry typefaces adopted for phototype by Headliners in the 1960s.
3 Comments on “4x4 (Grove Press, 1962)”
The beauty of Smoke as a 19th-century typeface is that it saw its most significant revival in this particular decade.
Roy Kuhlman designed this cover. He loved to use old fonts. I am his daughter.
Thank you, Arden! I’ve added the credit.
We now have eleven works by your father in our collection. Here’s another book published by Grove Press in the 1960s, also with Smoke on the uncredited cover. Do you know if it’s his design, too? I didn’t spot it on your website.