2006 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show

Judging for the 2006 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show took place January 12-13, 2007 at the AAUP Central Office in New York City. Approximately 334 books, 345 jackets and covers, 2 journals, and 6 journal covers were entered. From this pool of excellent design, the jurors chose 50 books and journals and 34 jackets/covers as the very best examples.

The 2005-06 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show was displayed at the AAUP Annual Meeting,  June 15-18, 2006. The show traveled around the country from September 2006 to May 2007.

2006 Show Committee

Laura Gleason, Louisiana State, Chair
Kris Ding, University of Illinois Press
Charles Hames, NYU Press
Kristin Harpster Lawrence, Wayne State University Press
Susanne McAdam, McGill-Queens University Press
Paula Newcomb, University of Illinois Press
Pam Schnitter, Princeton University Press
Lynn Werts, University Press of Florida

2006 Show Jurors

Book and Journal Interior Design
Paul F. Gehl, Custodian, John M. Wing Foundation, Newberry Library
Peter A. Andersen, Vice President, Design, The Knopf Group

Book and Journal Jacket Design
Claire Williams, VSA Partners
David Uttley, The DesignWorks Group

Acknowledgments

The Association and the 2006 Show Committee extend our thanks to Charles B. Hames, for designing the call for entries; IBT, for their courtesy printing of the call for entries; Friesens, for printing and binding the catalog; Brady-Palmer, for printing the certificates; and all member presses for their support and interest in this very successful design competition.

Selected Entries

Scholarly Typographic

University of Chicago Press
Loving Dr. Johnson by Helen Deutsch
Designer: Issac Tobin
Production Coordinator: David O’Connor
Acquiring Editor: Alan Thomas
Manuscript Editor: Erin DeWitt

Duke University Press
Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948–1963 by Gavin Butt
Designer/Production Coordinator: Amy Ruth Buchanan
Acquiring Editor: Ken Wissoker
Manuscript Editor: Mark Mastromarino

Duke University Press
Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar by Lydia Chávez with photographs by Mimi Chakarova
Designer/Production Coordinator: Cherie Westmoreland
Acquiring Editor: Valerie Millholland
Manuscript Editor: Kate Lothman

Duke University Press
Essentials of the Theory of Fiction, Third Edition by Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick D. Murphy, Editors
Designer/Production Coordinator: Amy Ruth Buchanan
Acquiring Editor: Reynolds Smith
Manuscript Editor: Pam Morrison

University of Illinois Press
The Test Drive by Avital Ronell
Designer: Richard Eckersley
Production Coordinator: Kristine Ding
Acquiring Editor: Willis Regier
Manuscript Editor: Terry Cagle

The University of North Carolina Press
Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, and the Americans, 1945–1953 by David Monod
Designer: Richard Hendel
Production Coordinator: Heidi Perov
Acquiring Editor: Charles Grench
Manuscript Editor: Ron Maner

University of Virginia Press
Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown by Helen Rountree
Designer: Louise O’Farrell
Production Coordinator: Brooke Kelley
Acquiring Editor: Boyd Zenner
Manuscript Editor: Susan Lee Foard

University of Washington Press
Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture: The Record of a Dusty Table by Xiaofei Tian
Designer/Production Coordinator: Ashley Saleeba
Acquiring Editor: Lorri Hagman
Manuscript Editor: Kerrie Maynes

Yale University Press
Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: the Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution by Gita May
Designer: Mary Valencia
Production Coordinator: Aldo Cupo
Acquiring Editor: Chris Rogers
Manuscript Editor: Jeffrey Schier

Scholarly Illustrated

Duke University Press
Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians by Jane Lydon
Designer: Amy Ruth Buchanan
Production Coordinator: Deborah Wong
Acquiring Editor: Ken Wissoker
Manuscript Editor: Kate Lothman

Getty Publications
A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII by Mark Evans, Janet Backhouse, Thomas Kren, and Nancy Turner
Designer: Markus Brilling
Production Coordinator: Amita Molloy
Manuscript Editor: Patrick Pardo

Getty Publications
Antiquity & Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites by Claire L. Lyons, Hohn Papadopoulous
Designer: Kurt Hauser
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Kahn
Manuscript Editor: Benedicte Gilman

The Johns Hopkins University Press
The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge by Michael McKeon
Designer: Omega Clay
Production Coordinator: Robert Schreur
Acquiring Editor: Jackie Wehmueller
Manuscript Editor: Kim F. Johnson

McGill-Queen’s University Press
Image and Imagination by Martha Langford, Editor
Designer: Garet Markvoort, zijn digital
Production Coordinator: Susanne McAdam
Acquiring Editor: Aurele Parisien
Manuscript Editor: Joan McGilvray

National Gallery of Art
Cézanne in Provence by Philip Conisbee and Denis Coutagne
Designer: Wendy Schleicher Smith
Production Manager: Chris Vogel
Design Manager: Margaret Bauer
Acquiring Editor: Judy Metro
Manuscript Editor: Tam Curry Bryfogle

National Gallery of Art
Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris by Leah Dickerman
Designer: Daphne Geismar
Production Manager: Chris Vogel
Design Manager: Margaret Bauer
Acquiring Editor: Judy Metro
Manuscript Editor: Karen Sagstetter

National Gallery of Art
Irving Penn: Platinum Prints by Sarah Greenough and Irving Penn
Designer: Matthew Monk
Production Manager: Chris Vogel
Design Manager: Margaret Bauer
Acquiring Editor: Judy Metro
Manuscript Editor: Julie Warnement

The University of North Carolina Press
Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780–1830 by Bernard L. Herman
Designer: Eric M. Brooks
Production Coordinator: Heidi Perov
Acquiring Editor: Fredrika Teute
Manuscript Editor: Ron Maner

Penn State University Press
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas by Jay M. Fisher, William R. Johnston, Kimberly Schenck, and Cheryl K. Snay
Designer: Jo Ellen Ackerman
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Norton
Acquiring Editor: Gloria Kury
Manuscript Editors: Cherene Holland, Peggy Hoover

University of Texas Press
James Surls: The Splendora Years, 1977–1997 by Terrie Sultan
Designer: Lisa Tremaine
Production Coordinator: David S. Cavazos
Acquiring Editor: Tim Staley
Manuscript Editor: Lynne Chapman

Yale University Press
Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile by Philippe Bordes
Designer: Leslie Fitch
Production Coordinator: Mary Mayer
Acquiring Editor: Patricia Fidler
Manuscript Editor: Phillip King

Yale University Press
The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography by Susan Chevlowe, Editor, with essays by Joanna Lindenbaum and Ilan Stavans
Designer: Katy Thomas
Production Coordinator: Mary Mayer
Acquiring Editors: Patricia Fidler, Michelle Komie
Manuscript Editor: Laura Jones Dooley

Yale University Press (distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the International Center for the Arts of the Americas, and the Gego Foundation)
Sabiduras and Other Texts by Gego by María Elena Huizi and Josefina Marique
Designers: HVA Design, Henk van Assen, and Amanda Bowers
Production Coordinator: Diane Lovejoy (MFAH)
Acquiring Editor: Patricia Fidler
Manuscript Editor: Diane Lovejoy (MFAH)

Yale University Press
Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama by Carol Ockman, Kenneth E. Silver, and Janis Bergman-Carton
Designers: Abbott Miller and Jeremy Hoffman, Pentagram
Design Production Coordinator: Mary Mayer
Acquiring Editors: Patricia Fidler, Michelle Komie
Manuscript Editor: Laura Jones Dooley

Trade Typographic

Beacon Press
Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth-Century Woman Caroline Healy Dall by Helen R. Deese, Editor
Designer: Patricia Duque Campos
Production Coordinator: Sarah Gillis
Acquiring Editor: Joanne Wyckoff
Manuscript Editor: Joanne Wyckoff

Louisiana State University Press
French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana by Carl A. Brasseaux
Designer/Production Coordinator: Melanie O’Quinn Samaha
Acquiring Editor: MaryKatherine Callaway
Manuscript Editor: Spencer Wood

University of Nebraska Press
Forever Red: Confessions of a Cornhusker Football Fan by Steve Smith
Designer: Richard Eckersley
Production Coordinator: Alison Rold
Acquiring Editor: Rob Taylor
Manuscript Editor: Linnea Fredrickson

University of Nebraska Press
Songs from the Black Chair: a Memoir of Mental Interiors by Charles Barber
Designer: Annie Shahan
Production Coordinator: Alison Rold
Acquiring Editor: Ladette Randolph
Manuscript Editor: Beth Ina

University of Nevada Press
Wild Nevada: Testimonies on Behalf of the Desert by Roberta Moore and Scott Slovic, Editors
Designer: Omega Clay
Production Coordinator: Sara Vélez Mallea
Acquiring Editor: Joanne O’Hare
Manuscript Editors: Ruth Younger and Michelle Filippini

Trade Illustrated

The University of Arizona Press
Picturing Arizona: The Photographic Record of the 1930s by Katherine G. Morrissey and Kirsten M. Jensen, Editors
Designer: Mary Velgos
Production Coordinator: Anne Keyl
Acquiring Editor: Patti Hartmann
Manuscript Editor: Al Schroder

University of California Press
Portraits of Tibetan Buddhist Masters by Don Farber
Designer; Nola Burger
Production Coordinator: John Cronin
Acquiring Editor: Reed Malcolm
Manuscript Editor: Sue Heinemann

Duke University Press
Montrose: Life in a Garden by Nancy Goodwin, illustrated by Ippy Patterson
Designer/Production Coordinator: Cherie Westmoreland
Acquiring Editor: Reynolds Smith
Manuscript Editor: Pam Morrison

Indiana Historical Society Press
Indiana Sporting Life: Selections from Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History by Ray E. Boomhower, Editor
Designer: R. Lloyd Brooks, Thrive Inc.
Production Coordinator: Ryan Sneed, Thrive Inc.
Acquiring Editor: Ray E. Boomhower
Manuscript Editors: Indiana Historical Society Press editorial staff

The MIT Press
Archigram: Architecture without Architecture by Simon Sadler
Designer: Derek George
Production Coordinator: Terry Lamoureux
Acquiring Editor: Roger Conover
Manuscript Editor: Matthew Abbate

The MIT Press
The Pan Am Building and the Shattering of the Modernist Dream by Meredith L. Clausen
Designer: Patrick Ciano
Production Coordinator: Terry Lamoureux
Acquiring Editor: Roger Conover
Manuscript Editor: Deborah Cantor-Adams

New York University Press
Tugboats of New York: An Illustrated History by George Matteson
Designer/Production Coordinator: Charles B. Hames
Acquiring Editor: Deborah Gershenowitz
Manuscript Editor: Despina Papazoglou Gimbel

University of Nevada Press
Black Rock by Peter Goin and Paul F. Starrs
Designer: Efrat Rafaeli
Production Coordinator: Kathleen Szawiola
Acquiring Editor: Joanne O’Hare
Manuscript Editor: Jan McInroy

The Penn State University Press
The Dark Side of Nature: Science, Society, and the Fantastic in the Work of Odilon Redon by Barbara Larson
Designer: Regina Starace
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Norton
Acquiring Editor: Gloria Kury
Manuscript Editor: Keith Monley

The Penn State University Press
Picturing the Banjo by Leo G. Mazow
Designer: Regina Starace
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Norton
Acquiring Editor: Gloria Kury
Manuscript Editor: Laura Reed-Morrisson

Rutgers University Press
How the Other Half Worships by Camilo Jose Vergara
Designer: Thomas Whitridge for Ink, Inc.
Production Coordinator: Anne Hegeman
Acquiring Editor: Marlie Wasserman
Manuscript Editor: Donna Pressman

Texas A & M University Press
A Dazzle of Dragonflies by Forrest Mitchell and James Lasswell
Designer: Cathleen M. Elliott
Production Coordinator: Peter Névraumont
Acquiring Editor: Shannon Davies
Manuscript Editor: Shannon Davies

University of Texas Press
No Place For Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention by Steve Liss
Designer: Ellen McKie
Production Coordinator: David S. Cavazos
Acquiring Editor: Theresa May
Manuscript Editor: Lynne Chapman

Yale University Press
Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World by Page Talbott, Editor
Designer: Sonia Shannon
Production Coordinator: Maureen Noonan
Acquiring Editor: Lauren Shapiro
Manuscript Editor: Susan Laity

Poetry and Fiction

University of California Press
The Complete Poems of Ted Berrigan by Ted Berrigan
Designer: Nola Burger
Production Coordinator: Robin Demers
Acquiring Editor: Laura Cerruti
Manuscript Editor: Rachel Berchten

The University of Chicago Press
Selected Sonnets by Luis de Camoes
Designer: Jill Shimabukuro
Production Coordinator: Joan Davies
Acquiring Editor: Randolph Petilos
Manuscript Editor: Kate Frentzel

University of Texas Press
Dugout by Terry Allen
Designer: Ellen McKie
Production Coordinator: David S. Cavazos
Acquiring Editor: Tim Staley
Manuscript Editor: Carolyn Cates Wylie

Yale University Press
Virgil’s Georgics by Janet Lembke, Translator
Designer: Sonia Shannon
Production Coordinator: Aldo Cupo
Acquiring Editor: John Kulka
Manuscript Editor: Larry Kenney

Reference

Oxford University Press
An Illustrated Chinese Materia Medica by Jing-Nuan Wu
Designer: Tracy Baldwin
Production Coordinator: Lisa Stallings
Acquiring Editor: Jeremy Lewis
Manuscript Editors: Christine Levesque and Lisa Stallings

University of Nevada Press
Wild Plants of the Sierra Nevada by Ray Vizgirdas, illustrations by Edna Rey-Vizgirdas
Designer: Cameron Poulter
Production Coordinator: Kathleen Szawiola
Acquiring Editor: Margaret Dalrymple
Manuscript Editors: Annette Wenda and Michelle Filippini

University of Texas Press
Texas Snakes: A Field Guide by James R. Dixon and John E. Werler, line drawings by Regina Levoy
Designer: Teresa Wingfield
Production Coordinator: David S. Cavazos
Acquiring Editor: Bill Bishel
Manuscript Editor: Carolyn Wylie

Jacket and Covers

The University of Alberta Press
Saskatchewan: Uncommon Views by John Conway, Sharon Butala, David Carpenter, and Helen Marzolf
Designer/Art Director: Alan Brownoff
Illustrator/Photographer: John Conway
Production Coordinator: Alan Brownoff

University of British Columbia Press
Brute Souls, Happy Beasts, and Evolution: The Historical Status of Animals by Rod Preece
Designer/Art Director: David Drummond
Illustrator/Photographer: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Darcy Cullen

University of British Columbia Press
Multicultural Nationalism: Civilizing Difference, Constituting Community by Gerald Kernerman
Designer/Art Director: David Drummond
Illustrator/Photographer: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Camilla Blakeley

University of California Press
Food for Thought: recipes from the University of California Press by the University of California Press
Designer/Art Director: Jessica Grunwald
Illustrator/Photographer: Jessica Grunwald
Production Coordinator: Janet Villanueva

University of California Press
A History of Wine in America: From Prohibition to the Present by Thomas Pinney
Designer/Art Director: Nicole Hayward
Illustrator/Photographer: Robert Levin/Corbis
Production Coordinator: John Cronin

The University of Chicago Press
Illinois Insects and Spiders by Peggy Macnamara
Designer/Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
Illustrator/Photographer: Peggy Macnamara
Production Coordinator: Phyllis Kingsland

The University of Chicago Press
Selected Sonnets by Luis de Camoes, translated by William Baer
Designer/Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
Production Coordinator: Joan Davies

The University of Chicago Press
Who Wrote the Book of Love? by Lee Siegel
Designer/Art Director: Gary Taxali, Isaac Tobin/ Jill Shimabukuro
Illustrator/Photographer: Gary Taxali
Production Coordinator: Joan Davies

Columbia University Press
Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords by Theodor W. Adorno
Designer/Art Director: David Drummond/Linda Secondari
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Jerome

Columbia University Press
Theory’s Empire: An Anthology of Dissent by Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral, Editors
Designer/Art Director: David Drummond/Linda Secondari
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Jerome

Cornell University Press
The Empty Cage : Inquiry into the Mysterious Disappearance of the Author by Carla Benedetti
Designer/Art Director: Henry Sene Yee/Scott Levine
Illustrator/Photographer: Henry Sene Yee
Production Coordinator: Chris Basso

Cornell University Press
Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930 by Diane P. Koenker
Designer/Art Director: Scott Levine
Production Coordinator: Chris Basso

Duke University Press
Cultures in Orbit : Satellites and the Televisual by Lisa Parks
Designer/Art Director: Rebecca Giménez
Production Coordinator: Rebecca Giménez

Duke University Press
Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect by Denise Riley
Designer/Art Director: Amy Ruth Buchanan
Illustrator/Photographer: Lesley Dill
Production Coordinator: Amy Ruth Buchanan

Georgetown University Press
Aspects of Islam by Ron Geaves
Designer/Art Director: Kimberly Glyder
Illustrator/Photographer: Tom Legoff /Getty Images
Production Coordinator: Deborah Weiner

Georgetown University Press
Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market by Mark J. Cherry
Designer/Art Director: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Deborah Weiner

University of Georgia Press
Copy Cats: Stories by David Crouse
Designer/Art Director: Mindy Basinger-Hill
Illustrator/Photographer: Getty Images
Production Coordinator: Sandra Strother-Hudson

Harvard University Press
Love’s Confusions by C. D. C Reeve
Designer/Art Director: Tim Jones
Illustrator/Photographer: Tim Jones
Production Coordinator: Jerry Kaplan

Indiana University Press
Culture and Consumption II: Markets, Meaning, and Brand Management by Grant McCracken
Designer/Art Director: David Drummond
Illustrator/Photographer: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Emmy Ezzell

University of Iowa Press
Six Modernist Moments in Poetry by David Young
Designer/Art Director: Aaron Cruse
Illustrator/Photographer: Aaron Cruse
Production Coordinator: Karen Copp

Louisiana State University Press
Change of Address: Poems, New and Selected by David R. Slavitt
Designer/Art Director: Barbara Neely Bourgoyne
Production Coordinator: Barbara Neely Bourgoyne

Louisiana State University Press
Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction by James W. Coleman
Designer/Art Director: Natalie F. Smith/Laura Gleason
Production Coordinator: Michelle A. Garrod

McGill-Queen’s University Press
From Power-Sharing to Democracy: Post-Conflict Institutions in Ethnically Divided Societies by Sid Noel, Editor
Designer/Art Director: David Drummond
Illustrator/Photographer: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Susanne McAdam

McGill-Queen’s University Press
The Silver Palace Restaurant by Mark Abley
Designer/Art Director: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Susanne McAdam

McGill-Queen’s University Press
Situating “Race” And Racisms In Time, Space, and Theory: Critical Essays For Activists and Scholars by Jo-Anne Lee and John Lutz, Editors
Designer/Art Director: Heng Wee Tan
Illustrator/Photographer: Heng Wee Tan
Production Coordinator: Susanne McAdam

McGill-Queen’s University Press
Why Botswana Prospered by J. Clark Leith
Designer/Art Director: Heng Wee Tan
Production Coordinator: Susanne McAdam

University of Minnesota Press
The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man by Edgar Morin
Designer/Art Director: Frances Baca
Production Coordinator: Catherine Clements

University of Minnesota Press
The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction by Robert Warrior
Designer/Art Director: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Catherine Clements

University of Nebraska Press
Carrying the Torch: Stories by Brock Clarke
Designer/Art Director: Annie Shahan
Illustrator/Photographer: Brent Larson/fStop
Production Coordinator: Alison Rold

University of Texas Press
The Hounds of Winter by James Magnuson
Designer/Art Director: Ellen McKie
Illustrator/Photographer: Keith Carter
Production Coordinator: David S. Cavozos

Wesleyan University Press
The Red Gaze by Barbara Guest
Designer/Art Director: Jeff Clark
Illustrator/Photographer: Barbara Guest
Production Coordinator: Jeff Clark

University of Wisconsin Press
Star Lake Saloon and Housekeeping Cottages : A Novel by Sara Rath
Designer/Art Director: Ann Weinstock
Illustrator/Photographer: Image Source/Getty
Production Coordinator: Carla Aspelmier

Yale University Press
Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz
Designer/Art Director: Nancy Ovedovitz
Illustrator/Photographer: Kiki Smith
Production Coordinator: Karen Stickler

Yale University Press
Crush by Richard Siken
Designer/Art Director: Mary Valencia
Illustrator/Photographer: Getty Images
Production Coordinator: Maureen Noonan