1. Swift's folding programme card for the evening of the 1996 Booker Prize for Fiction at the Guildhall, London, listing the schedule of events and the guests at Swift's table. With an empty white envelope, originally containing the Prize cheque. 2. Two extracts from Last Orders relating to BBC...
Book Jacket and Cover Designs: The Sweet Shop Owner
Scope & Content:
Different cover designs (without dates) from Penguin, Picador and Vintage International. With two additional images in the form of small colour prints (95 x 75mm).
A selection of book jacket designs, including proofs, mock-ups and occasional covering letters, for the following volumes: The Sweet Shop Owner; Shuttlecock; Learning to Swim; Waterland; Out of This World; Ever After; Last Orders; The Light of Day; Tomorrow; Making an Elephant; The Magic Wheel: ...
Designs from London Magazine Editions, William Heinemann, Picador (3 designs), and Simon & Schuster. Also, three alternative designs for the German edition and an exchange of faxes (2006) in which Swift expresses a preference for one of the three designs.
1. Cover designs from Heinemann (2 designs), Picador (3 designs), Picador Thirty (3 designs), and Penguin. 2. Design by Editorial Planeta, Barcelona, with Grant & Cutler Ltd compliment slip ('Doesn't look like the Fens to me'). 3. Design by Vintage International. 4. Mock-up of Picador cov...
1. Book jacket (3 copies) from Viking. 2. Mock-up from Penguin, with black and white photograph used on the cover (165 x 230mm). 3. Designs from Picador, Vintage International, and colour print of a cover showing a biplane (publisher not indicated).
1. Black and white illustration (A3 photocopy) to accompany extract from Last Orders published in Granta, but not used. 1995, artist not indicated. 2. Picador. Dust jacket (x 2) and subsequent cover with same beer glass design and reference to the Booker Prize. 3. Vintage International, with r...