Six Weeks is a 1976 novel by Fred Mustard Stewart (1932–2007). In 1982, it was adapted for the screen, starring Dudley Moore, Mary Tyler Moore, and Katherine Healy.

The dust jacket for the book’s first edition by Arbor House was designed by Loretta Trezzo. The New York-based designer worked with a typeface designed by her local colleague Ursula Suess, Book Jacket. The title demonstrates how well Book Jacket performs in all-caps settings – something that can’t be said of every calligraphic italic. The author’s name has alternate swash forms for all three initials.

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Harrington was first cast by John Haddon & Co. in London in 1899. There was at least one phototype revival in the 1960s, by Lettergraphics. But it wasn’t until 1978 that the turn-of-the-century design became popular again: that year, it was added to Letraset’s Letragraphica range.

Here it can seen used with the overly tight spacing that is so typical for the time, on the jacket for Darlin’ Bill, a book by Jerome Charyn (b. 1937) published by Arbor House in 1980. This “love story of the Wild West featuring Will Bill Hickok and one Sally Ovenshine” is described as “a blending of fact and fiction, adventure and romance.”

Designer Loretta Trezzo paired Harrington with two other faces rooted in the Art Nouveau era: Roberta III Initials (or maybe PLINC’s virtually identical precursor, Staudel Xenotype J) and Herkules.

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The title page features Ampurias, a VGC original for which we don’t know the designer yet. The subtitle and the titles of the other books by Jerome Charyn are set in Electra Italic.

First edition of Valentine Pontifex, the third book in Robert Silverberg’s Majipoor series, published in 1983 by Arbor House.

The jacket design is by Loretta Trezzo who used Cortez as the display typeface. Philip Kelly’s geometric Latin was released in 1977 in Letraset’s Letragraphica range. Trezzo inserted some of the included descending alternates, for R, n, t and f, but didn’t stop there: she also gave P and the final x such hyper-extended strokes that reach below the baseline, the latter apparently repurposed from k. The big triangles on i were replaced with round dots – which don’t get in the way in the tightly spaced setting. Last but not least, v and V acquired wedge-shaped base serifs, maybe to better harmonize these glyphs with S and P, and to optimize the typographic color.

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The Eye of the Queen is the debut novel by science fiction writer Phillip Mann (1942–2022). First published by Gollancz in the UK in 1982, this is the book jacket for the first American edition, by Arbor House in 1983.

Once more, Loretta Trezzo demonstrates her skills both in illustration and typography. The enigmatic image depicts a hand in the sky, floating above or emerging from a volcano, with an eyeless human head lying in the foreground. The title is presented in Countdown, with condensed proportions, custom small caps, and a hyper-extended Q tail. A spur was added to N, for better legibility. Mann’s name is set in caps from Harry.

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ITC Benguiat used by Loretta Trezzo for the first-edition jacket design for Robert Silverberg’s World of a Thousand Colors, published in 1982 by Arbor House, New York. Trezzo used the Condensed Bold style from Ed Benguiat’s eponymous typeface family. The author’s name is shown in all caps with enlarged initials.

Embarked on an interstellar voyage, a mixed crew enters into spaces and worlds, both outer and inner, never hinted at but holding perils and beauties.

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