Butley by Simon Gray

Contributed by Florian Hardwig


Source: www.abebooks.com Monkey House Books (edited). License: All Rights Reserved.

This week, Fantagraphics published Roy Kuhlman: Reluctant Modernist, “the first ever collection of the groundbreaking design of Grove Press designer Roy Kuhlman” who died in 2007. I haven’t seen Steven Brower’s monograph yet, but we’ve posted about a dozen of book covers and jackets by Kuhlman to Fonts In Use so far, documenting his eclectic typographic palette.

Here’s another jacket design of Kuhlman, for a play by Simon Gray, published in book form by Viking Press. Butley was first performed in 1971 at the Criterion Theatre directed by Harold Pinter. The photo by John Haynes depicts actors Alan Bates and Richard O'Callaghan. The title typeface chosen by Kuhlman is Mania Shaded.

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