Good Looks
HOUGH good looks might sometimes disguise a book that on closer : acquaintance we’d just as soon not ‘know, books (like people) should make the most of themselves. Yet most of us, ‘says Harold Gilmore in a talk to be heard on Tuesday, September 10, from -3YC (and later from other YC stations), have at some time or other known books we've wanted to read which we couldn’t face because they were so badly dressed. Mr Gilmore, a librarian at Canterbury University College, who will be giving the first of three talks with the general title The Look of a Book, starts by saying that a’ book looks right when all its parts-paper, type, illustrations, binding, jacket-fit in with one another and with the subject matter and style of the book. "When we come across books like this," he says, "we appreciate them more if we know something about the people whose taste, judgment and technical skill made the books possible."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 943, 6 September 1957, Page 18
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162Good Looks New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 943, 6 September 1957, Page 18
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