ALVIN LUSTIG

New Directions: New Classics

In the American Grain, William Carlos Williams, New Directions, New Classics NC1, 1944
A Season in Hell, Arthur Rimbaud, New Directions, New Classics NC2, 1945
Three Lives, Gertrude Stein, New Directions, New Classics NC3, 1945
The Longest Journey, E M Forster, New Directions, New Classics NC4, 1943
A Room with a View, E M Forster, New Directions, New Classics NC5, 1943
The Spoils of Poynton, Henry James, New Directions, New Classics NC6, 1943
Three Tales, Gustave Flaubert, New Directions, New Classics NC7, 1944
A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, New Directions, New Classics NC8, 1945
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, New Directions, New Classics NC9, 1945
Amerika, Franz Kafka, New Directions, New Classics NC10, 1946
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes, New Directions, New Classics NC11, 1945
Selected Poems, Kenneth Patchen, New Directions, New Classics NC12, 1945
Exiles, James Joyce, New Directions, New Classics NC13, 1946
Illuminations, Arthur Rimbaud, New Directions, New Classics NC14, 1945
Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West, New Directions, New Classics NC15, 1946
The Wanderer, Alain Fournier, New Directions, New Classics NC16, 1946
Flowers of Evil, Charles Baudelaire, New Directions, New Classics NC17, 1946
The Man Who Died, D.H. Lawrence, New Directions, New Classics NC18, 1947
Selected Poems, D.H. Lawrence, New Directions, New Classics NC19, 1947
Monday Night, Kay Boyle, New Directions, New Classics NC20, 1947
Selected Poems, William Carlos Williams, New Directions, New Classics NC21, 1949
Selected Poems, Ezra Pound, New Directions, New Classics NC22, 1949
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams, New Directions, New Classics NC23, 1949
Reflections in a Golden Eye, Carson McCullers, New Directions, New Classics NC24, 1948
Poems, Wilfred Owens, New Directions, New Classics NC25, 1949
Paterson, William Carlos Williams, New Directions, New Classics NC26, 1950
The Aspern Papers The Europeans, Henry James, New Directions, New Classics NC27, 1950
The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West, New Directions, New Classics NC29, 1950
ABC of Reading, Ezra Pound, New Directions, New Classics NC30, 1949
The Princess of Cleves, Madame de Lafayette, New Directions, New Classics NC31, 1951
Selected Poems, Muriel Rukeyser, New Directions, New Classics NC32, 1951
Under Western Eyes, Joseph Conrad, New Directions, New Classics NC33, 1951
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse, New Directions, New Classics NC34, 1951
Nausea, Jean Paul Sartre, New Directions, New Classics NC35, 1952
Selected Poems, by García Lorca, New Directions, New Classics NC36, 1953

New Directions

The Wisdom of the Heart, Henry Miller, New Directions, 1941
Selected Poems, Carl Rakosi, New Directions, 1941
New Directions 8, 1944
Nikolai Gogol, Vladimir Nabokov, New Directions, The Makers of Modern Literature, 1944
A Dream of Love, William Carlos Williams, New Directions, 1948
Spearhead, New Directions, 1947
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams, New Directions, 1947
The Green Child, Herbert Read, New Directions, 1948
The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles, New Directions, 1948
Summer and Smoke, Tennessee Williams, New Directions, 1948
5 Novels by Robert Firbank, New Directions, 1949
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, New Directions, 1949
New Directions 12, 1950
A Family Romance, Elizabeth Pollet, New Directions, 1950
Dylan Thomas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, New Directions, 1953

New Directions: Modern Reader

The Confessions of Zeno, Italo Zvevo, New Directions, Modern Reader, 1946
Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, New Directions, Modern Reader, 1946
Light in August, William Faulkner, New Directions, Modern Reader, 1946
Death on the Installment Plan, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, New Directions, Modern Reader, 1947
3 Tragedies, Federico García Lorca, New Directions, Modern Reader, 1948 (photo of the sea by Elaine Lustig Cohen, handwriting in the sand by Elaine Lustig Cohen, other photos by Jay Connor)
27 Wagons Full of Cotton, Tennessee Williams, New Directions, Modern Reader, 1949
As a Man Grows Older, Italo Zvevo, New Directions, Modern Reader, 1949
The Rose Tattoo, Tennessee Williams, New Directions, Modern Reader, 1951
Stories of Artists & Writers, Henry James, New Directions, Modern Reader, 1953
Camino Real, Tennessee Williams, New Directions, Modern Reader, 1953
One Arm, Tennessee Williams, New Directions, Modern Reader, 1954
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams, New Directions, Modern Reader, 1955

The Noonday Press: Meridian Books

Abinger Harvest, E M Forster, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M1, 1955
Force and Freedom, Jacob Burckhardt, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M2, 1955
Rousseau and Romanticism, Irving Babbitt, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M3, 1955
Imperialism and Social Classes, Joseph Schumpeter, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M4, 1955
Wayward Youth, August Aichhorn, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M5, 1955
The Playwright as Thinker, Eric Bentley, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M6, 1955
The Philosophy of Modern Art, Herbert Read, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M7, 1955
Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, Jacques Maritain, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M8, 1955
Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy, Eduard Zeller, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M9, 1955
The Language and Thought of the Child, Jean Piaget, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M10, 1955
Seven Types of Ambiguity, William Empson, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M11, 1955
Essays on Freedom and Power, Lord Acton, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M12, 1955
The Man of Letters in the Modern World, Allen Tate, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M13, 1955
The Ordeal of Mark Twain, Van Wyck Brooks, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M14, 1955
Sex and Repression in Savage Society, Bronislaw Malinowski, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M15, 1955
Pragmatism, William James, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M16, 1955
History As the Story of Liberty, Benedetto Croce, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M17, 1955
New Directions 15, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M18, 1955
Matthew Arnold, Lionel Trilling, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M19, 1955
Shakespearean Tragedy, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M20, 1955
The Devil’s Share, Denis de Rougemont, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M21, 1955
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M22, 1955
Byzantine Civilization, Steven Runciman, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books M23, 1955
Mysticism, Evelyn Underhill, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books MG1, 1955
Medieval Panorama, G.G. Coulton, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books MG2, 1955
Prolegomena to the study of Greek Religion, Jane Harrison, The Noonday Press, Meridian Books MG3, 1955

Other Publishers

Anatomy for Interior Designers, Whitney Publications, 1946
Dark Green, Bright Red; Gore Vidal; EP Dutton; 1950
Francis de N. Schroeder
The Final Hours, José Suárez Carreño, Knopf, 1953
The Law of Civilization, Brooks Adams, Vintage, 1954
Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville, Knopf, 1954

Book Design

Robinson Jeffers, William Van Wyck, The Ward Ritchie Press, 1938
Robinson Jeffers, William Van Wyck, The Ward Ritchie Press, 1938 (page detail)
The Ghost in the Underblow, Alfred Young Fischer, The Ward Ritchie Press, 1940
The Ghost in the Underblows, Alfred Young Fischer, The Ward Ritchie Press, 1940 (page details)
The Ghost in the Underblow, Alfred Young Fischer, The Ward Ritchie Press, 1940 (page details)
The Ghost in the Underblow, Alfred Young Fischer, The Ward Ritchie Press, 1940 (page details)
Words and Their Meanings, Aldous Huxley, The Ward Ritchie Press, 1940
Words and Their Meanings, Aldous Huxley, The Ward Ritchie Press, 1940 (page detail)
Skiing East and West, Hastings House, 1946 (photos by Helene Fischer)
Bookjackets by Alvin Lustig for New Directions Books, 1947
Monsieur Teste, Paul Valéry, Knopf, 1947
Jewish Holiday Dances, Corinne Chochem, Behrman House, 1948
A Guide to Contemporary Architecture in Southern California, Watling & Co., 1949
Metropolitan Los Angeles: Its Governments, The Haynes Foundation, 1949
Metropolitan Los Angeles: One Community, The Haynes Foundation, 1949
The Outsider, Ernesto Sabato, Knopf, 1950
Two Legends: Oedipus Theseus, André Gide, Knopf, 1950
Two Legends: Oedipus Theseus, André Gide, Knopf, 1950 (cloth cover)
American Woods, Watling & Co., 1951
Keats, John Middleton Murry, 1953
Treasures of Darkness, Cornelia Jessy, 1953 (photogram by Elaine Lustig Cohen)
Industrial Design in America; Farrar, Straus & Young; 1954