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On the Road

author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication date: August 26, 2008
Genre: Fiction

Design info:

designer: Greg Mollica
Typeface: Trade Gothic

Comments

cover design by Greg Mollica
Eric Lapore, January 19, 2009: Thanks Eric!
Ben Pieratt, January 19, 2009: Why are there two spaces after "1957"?
Stephen Coles, January 30, 2009: Just picked this off the shelf at the City Lights bookstore in San Francisco...what a trip.
Brad Schepp, March 20, 2009: It's definitely an improvement from this one: http://www.books.rack111.com/jkbooks/otrusasignet198225thann.jpg
Ben, April 29, 2009

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