The New Journalism by Tom Wolfe, Harper & Row hardback edition
The first-edition jacket for The New Journalism depicts a stylized floating skyscraper. Behind each of its twenty-one windows, there’s the silhouette of a New Journalism author hammering away at their typewriter. The fantastic airship is moved by a gigantic pencil, obviously at some speed, as the motion lines indicate. Dozens of open books flutter around the flying building in strict formation like a well-organized swarm of butterflies.
The typography brings together the shaded caps of Marble Heart for the title (with “Journalism” highlighted by the yellow pencil body), Franklin Gothic Extra Condensed for the names of the anthology editors, and all-caps Windsor Elongated for the names of the featured authors. “By Tom Wolfe” probably is lettering.
I’d love to learn who designed this! Gloria Adelson is credited for the book’s interior, but I don’t think this extends to the dust jacket.
The back lists the twenty-three texts included in the anthology in two weights of Helvetica. Two authors, Hunter S. Thompson and Wolfe himself are featured twice.
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See also the cover of the paperback edition: