Judging for the 2013 AAUP Book, Jacket and Journal Show took place January 24-25 at the AAUP Central Office in New York City. Approximately 273 books, 331 jacket and cover design entries, and 4 journals were entered. 51 books and 44 jackets/covers were chosen by the jurors as the very best examples from this pool of excellent design.
The 2013 Book, Jacket, & Journal Show premiered at the AAUP Annual Meeting in Boston, June 20-22, 2013. Afterward, the show was exhibited at member presses around the country from September 2013 through May 2014.
2013 Show Committee
Lindsay Starr, Texas, Chair
Regina Fuentes, Texas
Jennifer Hill, Duke
Todd Lape, Mississippi
Nathan Putens, Nebraska
2013 Show Jurors
Mark Abrams, Designer, Vintage Books
Alex Camlin, Creative Director, Da Capo Press
Barbara deWilde, award-winning book jacket designer
Charlotte Strick, Art Director, Faber and Faber and Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux
Acknowledgments
The Association and the 2013 Show Committee extend our thanks to Nathan Putens (Nebraska) for the call-for-entries and web banner design, John P. Pow Company for the call-for-entries paper and printing, and Thomson-Shore, Inc. for the catalog printing.
Selected Entries
Scholarly Typographic
Athabasca University Press
Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada by Ted McCoy
Designer: Marvin Harder
Production Coordinator: Megan Hall
Acquiring Editor: n/a
Project Editor: Pamela Holway
University of California Press
To Life!: Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet by Linda Weintraub
Designer: Nicole Hayward
Production Coordinator: Hal Hersey
Acquiring Editor: Kari Dahlgren
Project Editor: Dave Peattie
The Catholic University of America Press
Marks of Distinction: Christian Perceptions of Jews in the High Middle Ages by Irven M. Resnick
Designer: Anne Kachergis
Production Coordinator: Melissa Zbikowski
Acquiring Editor: Trevor Lipscombe
Project Editor: Theresa Walker
The University of Chicago Press
Arts of Wonder: Enchanting Secularity – Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy by Jeffrey L. Kosky
Designer: Matt Avery
Production Coordinator: Joan Davies
Acquiring Editor: Alan Thomas
Project Editor: Joel Score
Columbia University Press
Let the Meatballs Rest: And Other Stories About Food and Culture by Massimo Montanari, translated by Beth A. Brombert
Designer: Julia Kushnirsky
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Jerome
Acquiring Editor: Jennifer Crewe
Project Editor: Ron Harris
Duke University Press
MP3: The Meaning of a Format by Jonathan Sterne
Designer: Amy Ruth Buchanan
Production Coordinator: Amy Ruth Buchanan
Acquiring Editor: Ken Wissoker
Project Editor: Mark Mastromarino
Duke University Press
Object Lessons by Robyn Wiegman
Designer: Amy Ruth Buchanan
Production Coordinator: Amy Ruth Buchanan
Acquiring Editor: Ken Wissoker
Project Editor: Nancy Hoagland
The University of North Carolina Press
Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles by Nicolas G. Rosenthal
Designer: Rebecca Evans
Production Coordinator: Heidi Perov
Acquiring Editor: Mark Simpson-Vos
Project Editor: Ron Maner
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Reasoned and Unreasoned Images: The Photography of Bertillon, Galton, and Marey by Josh Ellenbogen
Designer: Regina Starace
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Norton
Acquiring Editor: Eleanor Goodman
Project Editor: n/a
The Pennsylvania State University Press
S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914: Philadelphia’s Literary Physician by Nancy Cervetti
Designer: Steve Kress
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Norton
Acquiring Editor: Patrick Alexander
Project Editor: n/a
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press/RIT Press
The Scythe and the Rabbit: Simon de Colines and the Culture of the Book in Renaissance Paris by Kay Amert, edited by Robert Bringhurst
Designer: Robert Bringhurst
Production Coordinator: n/a
Acquiring Editor: n/a
Project Editor: Molly Cort
Yale University Press
Of Africa by Wole Soyinka
Designer: Sonia Shannon
Production Coordinator: Maureen Noonan
Acquiring Editor: John Donatich
Project Editor: n/a
Scholarly Illustrated
The University of Alberta Press
Game Plan: A Social History of Sport in Alberta by Karen L. Wall
Designer: Alan Brownoff
Production Coordinator: Alan Brownoff
Acquiring Editor: Peter Midgley
Project Editor: Mary Lou Roy
University of California Press
The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook by Anne Willan with Mark Cherniavsky and Kyri Claflin
Designer: Nola Burger
Production Coordinator: Pam Augspurger
Acquiring Editor: Sheila Levine, Kate Marshall
Project Editor: Dore Brown
The University of Chicago Press
John Heartfield and the Agitated Image: Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-Garde Photomontage by Andrés Mario Zervigón
Designer: Isaac Tobin
Production Coordinator: Joan Davies
Acquiring Editor: Susan Bielstein
Project Editor: Joel Score
Duke University Press
Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetée, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour by Carol Mavor
Designer: Amy Ruth Buchanan
Production Coordinator: Amy Ruth Buchanan
Acquiring Editor: Ken Wissoker
Project Editor: Mark Mastromarino
Duke University Press
Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe by Tina M. Campt
Designer: Heather Hensley
Production Coordinator: Heather Hensley
Acquiring Editor: Ken Wissoker
Project Editor: Rebecca Fowler
Getty Publications
Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance: Painting and Illumination, 1300-1350 edited by Christine Sciacca
Designer: Kurt Hauser
Production Coordinator: Suzanne Watson
Acquiring Editor: n/a
Project Editor: Elizabeth Nicholson
The MIT Press
Under Blue Cup by Rosalind E. Krauss
Designer: Emily Gutheinz
Production Coordinator: Janet Rossi
Acquiring Editor: Roger Conover
Project Editor: Matthew Abbate
National Gallery of Art
Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings 1475—1540 by Gregory Jecmen and Freyda Spira
Designer: Brad Ireland
Production Coordinator: Chris Vogel
Acquiring Editor: Judy Metro
Project Editor: Julie Warnement
Pennsylvania State University Press
Philadelphia on Stone: Commercial Lithography in Philadelphia, 1828–1878 edited by Erika Piola
Designer: Regina Starace
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Norton
Acquiring Editor: Eleanor Goodman
Project Editor: n/a
University of Texas Press
Photographing the Mexican Revolution: Commitments, Testimonies, Icons by John Mraz
Designer: Lindsay Starr
Production Coordinator: Lindsay Starr
Acquiring Editor: Theresa May
Project Editor: Lynne Chapman
Yale University Press
Inventing the Christmas Tree by Bernd Brunner, translated by Benjamin A. Smith
Designer: Sonia Shannon
Production Coordinator: Katie Golden
Acquiring Editor: Jean Thompson Black
Project Editor: n/a
Trade Typographic
The University of Chicago Press
Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times by Andrew Piper
Designer: Andrea Guinn
Production Coordinator: Benjamin Balskus
Acquiring Editor: Alan Thomas
Project Editor: Mark Reschke
The University of Chicago Press
Vegetables: A Biography by Evelyne Bloch-Dano
Designer: Jill Shimabukuro
Production Coordinator: Joan Davies
Acquiring Editor: Christie Henry
Project Editor: Erin DeWitt
University of Georgia Press
Companion to an Untold Story by Marcia Aldrich
Designer: Kaelin Chappell Broaddus
Production Coordinator: Kathi Dailey Morgan
Acquiring Editor: Regan Huff
Project Editor: Jon Davies
University of Georgia Press
The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Insider’s History of the Florida-Alabama Coast by Harvey H. Jackson III
Designer: Erin Kirk New
Production Coordinator: Kathi Dailey Morgan
Acquiring Editor: Nicole Mitchell
Project Editor: Jon Davies
Harvard University Press
How To Be Gay by David M. Halperin
Designer: Lisa Roberts
Production Coordinator: Jerry Kaplan
Acquiring Editor: Lindsay Waters
Project Editor: Maria Ascher
Indiana University Press
Railroads and the American People by H. Roger Grant
Designer: Jamison Cockerham
Production Coordinator: Bernadette Zoss
Acquiring Editor: Linda Oblack
Project Editor: Nancy Lightfoot
Northeastern University Press/University Press of New England
A Murder in Wellesley: The Inside Story of an Ivy-League Doctor’s Double Life, His Slain Wife, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation by Tom Farmer and Marty Foley
Designer: Mindy Basinger Hill
Production Coordinator: Douglas Tifft
Acquiring Editor: Richard Pult
Project Editor: Susan Abel
University of Texas Press
Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards by Jan Reid
Designer: Lindsay Starr
Production Coordinator: Lindsay Starr
Acquiring Editor: Allison Faust
Project Editor: Lynne Chapman
University of Washington Press
The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States by Mark Fiege, foreword by William Cronon
Designer: Thomas Eykemans
Production Coordinator: Pamela Canell
Acquiring Editor: Marianne Keddington-Lang
Project Editor: Marilyn Trueblood
Trade Illustrated
The University of Chicago Press
Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868 by Anne Kelly Knowles
Designer: Ryan Li
Production Coordinator: Joan Davies
Acquiring Editor: Susan Bielstein
Project Editor: Anthony Burton
The Museum of Modern Art
Cindy Sherman by Eva Respini, with a contribution by Johanna Burton and a conversation between Cindy Sherman and John Waters
Designer: Beverly Joel
Production Coordinator: Marc Sapir
Acquiring Editor: n/a
Project Editor: Kate Norment with Jason Best
The Museum of Modern Art
Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925: How A Radical Idea Changed Modern Art by Leah Dickerman
Designer: Mark Nelson
Production Coordinator: Matthew Pimm
Acquiring Editor: n/a
Project Editor: David Frankel
The Museum of Modern Art
Print/Out: 20 Years in Print by Christophe Cherix with contributions by Kim Conaty and Sarah Suzuki
Designer: Mevis and Van Deursen
Production Coordinator: Matthew Pimm
Acquiring Editor: n/a
Project Editor: Libby Hruska
National Gallery of Art
Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac edited by Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Andrew Robison, introduction by Richard R. Brettell, essays by Victor Carlson, Elizabeth Easton, Marina Ferretti Bocquillon, and Margaret Morgan Grasselli
Designer: Chris Vogel
Production Coordinator: Chris Vogel
Acquiring Editor: Judy Metro
Project Editor: Tam Curry Bryfogle
National Gallery of Art
The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors by Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Arthur K. Wheelock
Designer: Carolyn Eckert
Production Coordinator: John Long
Acquiring Editor: Judy Metro
Project Editor: Nancy Green
National Gallery of Art
Shock of the News by Judith Brodie with Sarah Boxer, Janine Mileaf, Christine Poggi, and Matthew Witkovsky
Designer: Wendy Schleicher
Production Coordinator: Chris Vogel
Acquiring Editor: Judy Metro
Project Editor: Laura Jones Dooley
University of Nebraska Press
The Geometric Unconscious: A Century of Abstraction edited by Jorge Daniel Veneciano
Designer: Nathan Putens
Production Coordinator: Alison Rold
Acquiring Editor: Bridget Barry
Project Editors: Joeth Zucco
Pennsylvania State University Press
The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing by Rachel Poliquin
Designer: Regina Starace
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Norton
Acquiring Editor: Kendra Boileau
Project Editor: n/a
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press / RIT Press
Vignelli Transit Maps by Peter B. Lloyd with Mark Ovenden
Designer: Bruce Ian Meader
Production Coordinator: n/a
Acquiring Editor: n/a
Project Editor: Molly Cort
University of Texas Press
Andy Coolquitt by Rachel Hooper, with contributions by Dan Fox, Matthew Higgs, and Jan Tumlir
Designer: Derek George
Production Coordinator: Ellen McKie
Acquiring Editor: Allison Faust
Project Editor: Lynne Chapman
University of Texas Press
DKR: The Royal Scrapbook by Jenna Hays McEachern, with Edith Royal
Designer: Derek George
Production Coordinator: Ellen McKie
Acquiring Editor: Allison Faust
Project Editor: Victoria Davis
University of Texas Press
Nic Nicosia by Nic Nicosia; introduction by Michelle White, interview by Sue Graze, fiction by Philipp Meyer
Designer: Lindsay Starr
Production Coordinator: Lindsay Starr
Acquiring Editor: Allison Faust
Project Editor: Victoria Davis
Yale University Press
Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine edited by Thomas A. Denenberg with essays by Kenyon Bolton, Erica E. Hirshler, James F. O’Gorman, and Marc Simpson
Designer: Leslie Fitch
Production Coordinator: Sarah Henry
Acquiring Editor: Michelle Komie
Project Editor: Laura Jones Dooley
Poetry and Literature
Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth/University Press of New England
Maiden and Modest: A Renaissance Pastoral Romance by Bernardim Ribeiro, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Designer: Richard Hendel
Production Coordinator: Douglas Tifft
Acquiring Editor: Mario Pereira
Project Editor: Lys Weiss
Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England
What Is Amazing by Heather Christle
Designer: Eric M. Brooks
Production Coordinator: Douglas Tifft
Acquiring Editor: Suzanna Tamminen
Project Editor: Amanda Dupuis
University of Washington Press
Plume: Poems by Kathleen Flenniken
Designer: Ashley Saleeba
Production Coordinator: Pamela Canell
Acquiring Editor: Jacqueline Ettinger
Project Editor: Marilyn Trueblood
Yale University Press
Slow Lightning by Eduardo Corral, foreword by Carl Phillips
Designer: Lindsey Voskowsky
Production Coordinator: Katie Golden
Acquiring Editor: Jennifer Banks
Project Editor: Phillip King
Reference
Louisiana State University Press
Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries by Clare D’Artois Leeper
Designer: Michelle A. Neustrom
Production Coordinator: Michelle A. Neustrom
Acquiring Editor: Margaret H. Lovecraft
Project Editor: Neal Novak
Jackets and Covers
The University of Alberta Press
Wells by Jenna Butler
Designer: Alan Brownoff
Production Coordinator: Alan Brownoff
Art Director: Alan Brownoff
Brookings Institution Press
Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 1978–2012 by Stephen Hess
Designer: Beth Schlenoff
Production Coordinator: Lawrence Converse
Art Director: Susan Woollen
The University of Chicago Press
A Cultural History of Heredity by Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Designer: Natalie Smith
Production Coordinator: Benjamin Balskus
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
The University of Chicago Press
After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America edited by John Burnham
Designer: Isaac Tobin
Production Coordinator: Benjamin Balskus
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
The University of Chicago Press
The Atheist’s Bible: The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed by Georges Minois, translated by Lys Ann Weiss
Designer: Matt Avery
Production Coordinator: David O’Connor
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
The University of Chicago Press
The Dawn of the Deed: The Prehistoric Origins of Sex by John A. Long
Designer: Isaac Tobin
Production Coordinator: Joseph Claude
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
The University of Chicago Press
The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France by Julia V. Douthwaite
Designer: Natalie Smith
Production Coordinator: Joan Davies
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
The University of Chicago Press
Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930 by Beatrix Hoffman
Designer: Natalie Smith
Production Coordinator: David O’Connor
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
The University of Chicago Press
Inventing Chemistry: Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts by John C. Powers
Designer: Matt Avery
Production Coordinator: Joan Davies
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
The University of Chicago Press
The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon by John Tresch
Designer: Isaac Tobin
Production Coordinator: David O’Connor
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
The University of Chicago Press
You Were Never in Chicago by Neil Steinberg
Designer: Andrea Guinn
Production Coordinator: Joseph Claude
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
Columbia University Press
LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida by Roy Brand
Designer: Evan Gaffney
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Jerome
Art Director: Julia Kushnirsky
Duke University Press
The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal by Joshua Ramey
Designer: C.H. Westmoreland
Production Coordinator: C.H. Westmoreland
Art Director: C.H. Westmoreland
Duke University Press
Object Lessons by Robyn Wiegman
Designer: Amy Ruth Buchanan
Production Coordinator: Amy Ruth Buchanan
Art Director: Amy Ruth Buchanan
University of Georgia Press
Love, in Theory: Ten Stories by E. J. Levy
Designer: Kaelin Chappell Broaddus
Production Coordinator: Kathi Dailey Morgan
Art Director: Kaelin Chappell Broaddus
Hong Kong University Press
Building the Dragon City by The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture
Designer: Stanley Wong
Production Coordinator: Ada Wan
Art Director: Jennifer Flint
Hong Kong University Press
Lao She in London by Anne Witchard
Designer: Annie Cheng
Production Coordinator: Serina Poon
Art Director: Jennifer Flint
University of Iowa Press
Trespasses: A Memoir by Lacy M. Johnson
Designer: Kimberly Glyder
Production Coordinator: Karen Copp
Art Director: n/a
McGill-Queen’s University Press
DisPossession: Haunting in Canadian Fiction by Marlene Goldman
Designer: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Susanne McAdam
Art Director: Susanne McAdam
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Hit the Road, Jack: Essays on the Culture of the American Road edited by Gordon E. Slethaug and Stacilee Ford
Designer: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Susanne McAdam
Art Director: Susanne McAdam
McGill-Queen’s University Press
In Praise of Nonsense: Aesthetics, Uncertainty, and Postmodern Identity by Ted Hiebert
Designer: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Susanne McAdam
Art Director: Susanne McAdam
McGill-Queen’s University Press
The Little Yellow House by Heather Simeney MacLeod
Designer: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Susanne McAdam
Art Director: Susanne McAdam
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Secessionism: Identity, Interest, and Strategy by Jason Sorens
Designer: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Susanne McAdam
Art Director: Susanne McAdam
The MIT Press
Curious Visions Of Modernity: Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred by David L Martin
Designer: Margarita Encomienda
Production Coordinator: Janet Rossi
Art Director: n/a
University of Nevada Press
Atomic Comics: Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World by Ferenc Morton Szasz
Designer: Kimberly Glyder
Production Coordinator: Kathleen Szawiola
Art Director: Kathleen Szawiola
Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England
Music, Politics, and Violence edited by Susan Fast and Kip Pegley
Designer: Mindy Basinger Hill
Production Coordinator: Douglas Tifft
Art Director: Mindy Basinger Hill
New York University Press
Judging Addicts: Drug Courts and Coercion in the Justice System by Rebecca Tiger
Designer: Heng Wee Tan
Production Coordinator: Charles B. Hames
Art Director: Heng Wee Tan
Oregon State University Press
Aurora, Daughter of the Dawn: A Story of New Beginnings by J. J. Kopp
Designer: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Jo Alexander
Art Director: Jo Alexander
Oxford University Press
The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era by Shawn Francis Peters
Designer: Philip E. Pascuzszo
Production Coordinator: Erina Zadra
Art Director: Lisa Force
Oxford University Press
Hermes Pan: The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire by John Franceschina
Designer: Kathleen Lynch
Production Coordinator: n/a
Art Director: Linda Roppolo
Pennsylvania State University Press
The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing by Rachel Poliquin
Designer: Regina Starace
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Norton
Art Director: Jennifer Norton
Pennsylvania State University Press
Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America by Dave Tell
Designer: theBookDesigners
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Norton
Art Director: Jennifer Norton
Princeton University Press
All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals by David Scheffer
Designer: Jason Alejandro
Production Coordinator: Sharyn Zasada
Art Director: Maria Lindenfeldar
University of Texas Press
All-American Boy by Larzer Ziff
Designer: Derek George
Production Coordinator: Ellen McKie
Art Director: n/a
University of Texas Press
Colonel Sanders and the American Dream by Josh Ozersky
Designer: Derek George
Production Coordinator: Ellen McKie
Art Director: n/a
University of Texas Press
Dwight Yoakam: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere by Don McLeese
Designer: Lindsay Starr
Production Coordinator: Lindsay Starr
Art Director: n/a
University of Texas Press
The Fictional Christopher Nolan by Todd McGowan
Designer: Ayham Ghraowi/Ellen McKie (interior)
Production Coordinator: Ellen McKie
Art Director: n/a
University of Texas Press
Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate by Ginger Strand
Designer: Derek George
Production Coordinator: Ellen McKie
Art Director: n/a
University of Texas Press
Ryan Adams: Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown by David Menconi
Designer: Lindsay Starr
Production Coordinator: Lindsay Starr
Art Director: n/a
University of Texas Press
The Surprising Design of Market Economies by Alex Marshall
Designer: Derek George
Production Coordinator: Ellen McKie
Art Director: n/a
University of Texas Press
Uncivil Wars: Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory by Sandra Messinger Cypess
Designer: Lindsay Starr
Production Coordinator: Lindsay Starr
Art Director: n/a
Texas Tech University Press
Liberty’s Christmas by Randall Platt
Designer: Laura Jones Martinez
Production Coordinator: Kasey McBeath
Art Director: Kasey McBeath
Yale University Press
Black Square: Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism by Aleksandra Shatskikh, translated by Marian Schwartz
Designer: Sonia Shannon
Production Coordinator: Maureen Noonan
Art Director: Nancy Ovedovitz