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Martha and Hanwell

author: Zadie Smith
Publication date: November 30, 1999
Genre: Fiction

Design info:

designer: Sacha Spencer Trace
art_director: John Hamilton
art_director: Jim Stoddart
Typefaces: Freehand 521 (Mandate) Helvetica

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Who runs this thing?

The Book Cover Archive is edited and maintained by Ben Pieratt of General Projects and Eric Jacobsen of Whisky Van Gogh Go.

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