Philip Grushkin Papers, 1937-2001, bulk 1940s-1960s

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Series I: Book Design, 1930-1994

This series contains comprehensives, mechanicals, roughs, and finished book jackets for book jackets designed by Philip Grushkin.

This series also contains several catalogs for Dial Press, as well as a jacket for the Fall 1950 catalog, and many issues of the "Bulletin of the Marboro Book Club."

For projects where more substantial records were maintained together as a file, see Series II: Project Files.


Subseries I.1: Comprehensives, Mechanicals, and Roughs of Book Jackets, 1940s-1960s

This subseries contains comprehensives (comps) of book jackets designs, as well as mechanicals and roughs, sometimes in multiple drafts.

Smaller items of uniform size are filed together by title in one alphabetical sequence; individual items are not listed in the contents list. Larger items are listed individually due to the variation in the condition and size of these items.

Arranged alphabetically by book title



Box 1 Folder 1-31 Comprehensives of Book Jackets--A-T (By Title), 1940s-1960s, (31 Folders)



Box 2 Folder 38-44 Comprehensives of Book Jackets--U-Z (By Title), 1940s-1960s, (7 Folders)


Oversized Comprehensives, Mechanicals, and Roughs



Box 9 Folder 1 The Age of Longing (Arthur Koestler)


Box 9 Folder 2 All and Everything (G. Gurdjieff)



Box 4 Folder 4 Ambush House (Kurt Steel)



Box 5 Folder 5 The American Oxford Atlas (Lewis and Campbell, eds)



Box 9 Folder 3 The Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves (Thomas Willis)



Box 12 Folder 1 Ani Maamin, A Song (Elie Wiesel)



Box 4 Folder 5 Art Has Many Faces (Katherine Kuh)



Box 14 Folder 1 The Art of Philip Pearlstein



Box 8 Folder 1 Art Through the Ages (Helen Gardner)


Box 8 Folder 2 As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me



Box 9 Folder 4 Because of the Lockwoods (Dorothy Whipple)



Box 12 Folder 2 The Big Wheel (John Brooks)



Box 9 Folder 5 The Birth of Israel (Jorge Garcia-Granados)


Box 9 Folder 6 The Blind Man (Walter Jens)


Box 9 Folder 7 The Blood of Others (Simone de Beauvoir)



Box 12 Folder 3 Books in General (V.S. Pritchett)



Box 9 Folder 8 The Borzoi Poe


Box 9 Folder 9 The Borzoi Turgenev


Box 9 Folder 10 By Sun and Candlelight (Patricia Campbell)


Box 9 Folder 11 Champlain (Morris Bishop)



Box 4 Folder 6 Coming Soon! Out of My Later Years (Albert Einstein)



Box 9 Folder 12 Death in the Wind (Edwin Lanham)



Box 14 Folder 2 Don Quixote



Box 9 Folder 13 Economics in the Public Service (Edwin G. Nourse)


Box 9 Folder 14 The End of the Week (Virginia Chase)


Box 9 Folder 15 The Enemy Camp (Jerome Weidman)



Box 4 Folder 7 Episode in the Transvaal (Harry Bloom)



Box 9 Folder 16 The Eye of the Kite (Fleming MacLeish)


Box 9 Folder 17 Fair Havens (B.C. Jefferson)



Box 4 Folder 7 The Fateful Years (Andre François-Poncet)



Box 2 Folder 53 Form, Space, and Vision--Book Comp



Box 9 Folder 18 Four Great Comedies (Shakespeare)


Box 9 Folder 19 From Major Jordan's Diaries (Jordan and Stokes)


Box 9 Folder 20-21 From the Terrace (John O'Hara), (2 Folders)



Box 4 Folder 9 General Dynamics

(Appears to be a company publication)



Box 10 Folder 1 General Dynamics

(Appears to be a company publication)



Box 15 Folder 2 The Generous Heart (Kenneth Fearing)



Box 10 Folder 2 The Ghostly Tales of Henry James (Leon Edel, ed.)


Box 10 Folder 3 Giuseppe Verde (Francis Toye)



Box 4 Folder 10 Give Us Our Years (Margaret Culkin Banning)



Box 10 Folder 4 Handel (Harbert Weinstock)


Box 10 Folder 5 Happy Times (Brendan Gill and Jerome Zerbe)


Box 10 Folder 6 Here is New York (E.B. White)



Box 14 Folder 3 The History of Western Culture (Jacques Barzun, ed.)



Box 12 Folder 4-5 Horace Greeley (William Harlan Hale), (2 Folders)



Box 10 Folder 7 In the Cause of Peace (Trygve Lie)


Box 10 Folder 8 Indiana: An Interpretation (John Bartlow Martin)



Box 15 Folder 3 Interior Decorating with Plants (Carla Wallach)



Box 10 Folder 9 The Invisible Writing (Arthur Koestler)



Box 12 Folder 6 Let No Man Write My Epitaph (William Motley)



Box 10 Folder 10 Limbo (Bernard Wolfe)


Box 10 Folder 11 Lonely Crusade (Chester Himes)


Box 10 Folder 12 Lord, What a Family! (Robert Leckie)


Box 10 Folder 13 Love Songs of Asia (Powys Mathers)



Box 12 Folder 7 Lucy Crown (Irwin Shaw)



Box 4 Folder 11 The Making of a Nation


Box 4 Folder 12 The Mapping of America (Seymour Schwartz)



Box 10 Folder 14 Michelangelo the Florentine (Sidney Alexander)


Box 10 Folder 15 The Mote and the Beam (Percy Winner)



Box 8 Folder 3 The Muses are Heard (Truman Capote)



Box 4 Folder 13 The New Dimensions of Peace (Chester Bowles)



Box 10 Folder 16 The New England Story (Henry Beetle Hough)



Box 8 Folder 4 A New Model of the Universe (P.D. Ouspensky)



Box 4 Folder 14 Odyssey

(Note indicates that lettering is by George Salter)


Box 4 Folder 15 Papyrus and Tablet (Grayson and Redford, eds.)



Box 10 Folder 17 Paul Bragg's Health Cookbook (Paul C. Bragg)



Box 12 Folder 8 A Pepper-Pod (Shōson (Kenneth Yasuda) )



Box 10 Folder 18 Power and Policy (Thomas K. Finletter)



Box 12 Folder 9 Powerful Long Ladder (Owen Dodson)



Box 10 Folder 19 A Quiet Place to Work (Harry Brown)

(Last book cover designed by George Salter, rendered for reproduction by Grushkin, per the 2001 Grolier Club Retrospective Catalog)



Box 5 Folder 6 The Rock Poster (Paul Gruskin)



Box 15 Folder 4 The Sculpture of Verrocchio



Box 4 Folder 16 Something to Hide (Philip MacDonald)



Box 8 Folder 5 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Lewis Stevenson)



Box 12 Folder 10 The Struggles of Albert Woods (William Cooper)



Box 11 Folder 1 Summer on the Water (David Westheimer)


Box 11 Folder 2 Surprised by Joy (C.S. Lewis)


Box 11 Folder 3 The Tactful Texan: A Biography of Governor Will Hobby (James A. Clark with Weldon Hart)


Box 11 Folder 4 The Tender Age (Russell Thacher)


Box 11 Folder 5 These are the British (Drew Middleton)


Box 11 Folder 6 Tigerland and South Sea (Olle Strandberg)


Box 11 Folder 7 Till We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis)


Box 11 Folder 8 Touchstone for Ethics (T.H. Huxley and Julian Huxley)


Box 11 Folder 9 The Train from Pittsburgh (Julien Farren)


Box 11 Folder 10 Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann


Box 11 Folder 11 The Ultraviolet Widow (Frances Crane)


Box 11 Folder 12 The Undefeated (I.A.R. Wylie)



Box 15 Folder 5 Venus in Sackcloth (Majorie Malvern)



Box 12 Folder 11 A View of the Harbor (Elizabeth Taylor)



Box 11 Folder 13 The Warlords of Washington (Bruce Catton)


Box 11 Folder 14 Wayward Angel (Wayne Chute)



Box 15 Folder 6 Webster's New Geographical Dictionary

(Comp of full jacket, including the spine)


Box 15 Folder 7 Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, 2nd College Edition

(Comp of full jacket, including the spine)



Box 11 Folder 15 The Western World and Japan (G.B. Sansom)



Box 4 Folder 17 The Westward Movement



Box 11 Folder 16 What's Cooking? (Englewood Jewish Community Center)



Box 15 Folder 8 A World History of Photography (Naomi Rosenblum)



Box 11 Folder 17 The World in the Evening (Christopher Isherwood)


Box 11 Folder 18 The Years of the Pilgrimage (Kenneth S. Davis)



Box 4 Folder 18 Titles (Miscellaneous)

(Lettering)



Box 11 Folder 19 Unidentified (E.M. Forster)

(Incomplete)



Box 4 Folder 19 Unidentified (2 Related Items)


Box 4 Folder 20 Unidentified (3 Items)



Box 11 Folder 20 Unidentified (2 Items)



Box 12 Folder 12 Unidentified (1 Item)



Box 2 Folder 49 Unidentified (1 Item)

(Line drawings of open book, star)


Box 2 Folder 50 Unidentified (1 Item)


Other Materials



Box 7 Folder 9 Social Problems (F. James Davis)--Annotations on Title Page and Table of Contents, circa, 1969

(This is a printed copy of the title page and table of contents pages with annotations in pencil)



Box 19 Folder 28 Unidentified Logo Design, undated

(This is a printed sheet consisting of a pattern using the small logo; the logo might be for a subsidiary of Random House)



Box 18 Folder 1 Unidentified Deutschland Map, in German, undated

(This is a printed copy)


Subseries I.2: Published Book Jackets, 1940s-1960s

This subseries contains published book jackets, and two folders of photostats of book jackets.

Arranged alphabetically by book title.



Box 2 Folder 1-37 Book Jackets--A-Z (By Title), 1940s-1960s, (37 Folders)



Box 5 Folder 4 Book Jackets--Oversized, 1940s-1960s

(Includes 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship; American Chairs; Art Through the Ages; Bartholomew's Advanced Atlas of Modern Geography; History of Art; Midstream: Lincoln the President; Miracle in Brittany; The Rock Poster; Signs and Symbols in Christian Arts; The War Against the Jews 1933-1945 and a portion of The American Oxford Atlas)



Box 15 Folder 9 Book Jackets--Oversized, 1940s-1960s

(Includes Bridge-Head: The Drama of Israel; Do Not Disturb; Horace Greeley: Voice of the People; The Houses In Between; Inside the Confederate Government: The Diary of Robert Garlick Hill Kean; Morning Faces: A Book of Children and Parents; The Muses are Heard; Story of a Year: 1848 and When the World Ended; as well as the title strip for Two Thousand Years of Oriental Ceramics)



Box 3 Folder 3-4 Photostats, 1940s-1960s, (2 Folders)

(Photostat copies of book jackets or portions of book jackets. Some with minor annotations)


Subseries I.3: Published Catalogs, 1947-1950s

This subseries contains several catalogs for Dial Press, as well as a jacket for the Fall 1950 catalog, and many issues of the "Bulletin of the Marboro Book Club." A few of these items are annotated.


Dial Press



Box 24 Folder 1-2 Catalogs, 1947-1951, (2 Folders)


Box 24 Folder 3 Catalog Jacket and Title Pages, 1950 Fall, 1950


Marboro Book Club, 1950s


"Bulletin of the Marboro Book Club"


Box 24 Folder 4 Volume 1, Issues #4-10


Box 24 Folder 5 Volume 2, Issues #11-15, 18-21, 23


Box 24 Folder 6 Volume 3, Issues #24-30


Box 24 Folder 7 Prehistoric Art (Forman-Poulik)--Advertisement