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"textContent": "Contributed by Florian Hardwig\n\n\n _**Source: twitter.com **Mike Dempsey. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPenguin’s first paperback edition of Ulysses, published as Modern Classics 3000.\n\nMike Dempsey comments:\n\n> Penguin’s master typographer Hans Schmoller (1916–1985) designed this elegant cover in 1969 [1968]. Selecting the perfect typeface **Spectrum** , modifying the capital letters and arranging it perfectly on the blackest of backgrounds, making the result timeless and beautiful.\n\n\n\n\n_**Source: www.abebooks.com **Pulp Fiction Murwillumbah. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n_**Source: www.abebooks.com **Pulp Fiction Murwillumbah. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n\nThe interior – starting with a short bio of Joyce – is set in **Plantin**.\n\n\n\n\n_**Source: www.abebooks.com **Pulp Fiction Murwillumbah. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n\nThe open caps on the title page aren’t from Jan van Krimpen’s Open Kapitalen as one might expect. Instead, they are from Max Caflisch’s similar **Columna** , here used with an alternate **Y**.\n\n\n\n\n_**Source: www.abebooks.com **Pulp Fiction Murwillumbah. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n_**Source: www.abebooks.com **Pulp Fiction Murwillumbah. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n\nThe back cover has a drawing of James Joyce by Augustus John.\n\n\n\nThis post was originally published at Fonts In Use\n\n* * *",
"title": "Ulysses by James Joyce, Penguin"
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