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Design Category
Book design, 1998
Design firm
Little, Brown and Company (New York, New York)
Collection
(1999) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1998

Description

A major music biographer writers about the later years of Elvis’s life. Using the image of Elvis looking out the train window captured the uncertain future of this musician at the beginning of his self-destruction.

Credits
Creative director/designer: Michael Ian Kaye
Photographer: From the Lynn Goldsmith Collection
Typeface: DIN Engschrift Alternate
Printer: Phoenix Color
Paper: 100# Phoenix Truewhite C/1/S
Author: Peter Guralnick
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company