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The Dragon and the Phoenix by Eric Chou

Photo(s) by Make It Old. Imported from Flickr on Nov 17, 2024. Artwork published in .
The Dragon and the Phoenix by Eric Chou
Source: www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by Make It Old and tagged with “westitaliano”. License: CC BY-NC-SA.

West Italiano, stacked and interlocked and with condensed proportions, on the cover of Eric Chou’s Book of Chinese Love and Sex, published by Bantam Books in 1972. The blurb with the quote from Playboy Book Club is added in Caledonia Italic.

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  • West Italiano
  • Caledonia

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2 Comments on “The Dragon and the Phoenix by Eric Chou”

  1. I believe West Grandanos (similar to West Italiano) was used in the 1972 book House of the Deadly Nightshades by Lyda Belknap Long and already in 1967 for Cloud Over Malverton by Nancy Buckingham.

  2. In 1969, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë used West Italiano

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