Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (Rapp & Whiting, 1969)
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
on Jun 19th, 2021. Artwork published in
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The first British edition of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published by Rapp & Whiting in 1969. Lawrence Edwards’s cover art shows a sheep’s silhouette filled with a photograph of electric circuits. For the title, a bichromatic setting of Jim Crow has been used, center-aligned, with one word per line. On the spine of the jacket, it’s set in all-caps Folio Condensed. The names of author and publisher use two styles from Univers.
See Damon Knight’s A Science Fiction Argosy (Gollancz, 1973) for another jacket design featuring multicolored Jim Crow, and see VTC Ruby (Vocal, 2021) for a new digital interpretation that offers multiple styles for this kind of chromatic use.
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