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H. Lawrence Hoffman (23 October 1911 - 20 January 1977) was a commercial book jacket designer and illustrator who worked in New York City. He illustrated book covers for over 25 publishing companies, including Pocket Books, Popular Library, Macmillan, Simon and Schuster, Ballantine, and Random House. Over the course of his career, he created over 500 book jacket covers. From 1941 to 1951, he was an Art Director and Partner at Immerman Art Studios. From 1952 till the end of his career he worked as a free-lance artist and book illustrator. He taught Illustration and Lettering at The Cooper Union from 1960-67 and Commercial Art at C.W. Post University from 1967 to 1976. Beginning in 1943, Hoffman designed (sometimes along with Sol Immerman) all but 11 of the first 125 paperback covers for Popular Library. Hoffman repeated the cover illustration as a smaller line drawing on the title page. 〔 Schreuders, Piet, ''Paperbacks, U.S.A., A Graphic History, 1939-1959'', Blue Dolphin Enterprises, San Diego, 1981 〕 One of his most significant work was to design the dust jacket and the 21 illustrations for “The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Modern English Prose Translation by R,M, Lumiansky” published in 1948 by Simon and Schuster. The book was selected as one of the 50 best books of the year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Father to David Hoffman, filmmaker. == Illustrated == *''Beyond the Barriers of Space and Time'' by Judith Merril, hard cover, Random House; 1st edition (November 1, 1954)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amazon.com: Beyond the Barriers of Space and Time )〕 *''Father Marquette and the Great Rivers'' by August Derleth, Vision Books, 1955 *''Cross in the West'' by Mark Boesch, Vision Books 1956 *''Fighting Father Duffy Jim Bishop and Virginia Lee Bishop, Vision Books, New York, 1956 *Governor All Smith by James A. Farley and James C. G. Conniff, Vision Book, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, New York, 1959 *''More champions in sports and spirit'' by Ed Fitzgerald (1919-2001)(sports writer, editor Sport magazine), Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959 *''The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer : a new modern English prose translation'', translated by R.M. Lumiansky, Hoffman, Washington Square Press, 1960, 1967 *''Alien Art, by Gordon R. Dickson, hardcover, E. P. Dutton (1973) 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amazon.com: Alien Art )〕 * '' The Building Book: About Houses the World Over'' by Evelyn E. Smith, Howell Soskin publishers, New York, 1972 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「H. Lawrence Hoffman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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