A 24–Page Book by John Luke, Type Directors Club New York, 1987 [Cover: Paul Rand]

A 24-Page Book, 1987. John Luke & The Type Directors Club, New York, New York City, USA. 8 x 9, n.p. [56] glossy pages plus black matte stapled covers. Concept, design and art direction by John Luke. Wrap-around cover design (XXIV, A Twenty-four Page Book) by Paul Rand.

“With only the rarest of exceptions—an illuminator of acute and tender sensibility, a book designer using the numeral to distinguish a chapter heading—the number on the page has served its essential function mutely, unnoticed and unsung.”

This slim booklet celebrates the “too-long-postponed celebrity, for the ill-used, slighted page number” by featuring (24) designers each illustrating an individual page number (1–24) with contributors in order of appearance including: Lou Dorfsman, Freeman Craw, Ivan Chermayeff, Bradbury Thompson, Milton Glaser, Saul Bass, Minoru Morita, Paul Rand, Mike Quon, Gene Federico, Alan Peckolick, Diana Graham, George Lois, Tom Geismar, George Tscherney, Gerard Huerta, Martin Solomon, Patrick Fultz, Samuel N. Antupit, Tom Carnase, Herman Zapf, Jözef Sumichrast, Massimo Vignelli and B. Martin Pedersen. With a Preface by John Luke and an extensive Colophon.

A near fine softcover stapled booklet with the slightest hint of wear to the black cover and corners.