There are some serious Elaine Lustig Cohen freaks out there, who try to collect every Meridian cover she did. Which I won’t do, but I totally understand the inclination. Lustig Cohen (b. 1927) designed truly beautiful covers for the house, whose publisher, Arthur A. Cohen, she married in the fifties.

I won’t get in to any bio details, because Ellen Lupton wrote a great profile, which you can read here. (Though Lupton does state something I strongly have to disagree with: she says that Lustig’s covers “bring to mind the recent work of Chip Kidd”. I have yet to see anything by Chip Kidd that I like, and his overwrought 90’s style is the last thing I think of when I look at Lustig’s joyful minimalism.)
More delicious Lustig-ness:

I may not have any of the above, but I do have “Sign Language” from 1961. This hardcover about signage “for buildings and landscape”, was designed inside and out by Lustig, and it is so nice to see her modernist mind at work in the interior lay-outs.
I’ll let the images speak for themselves.