La Joie  by Georges Bernanos

This is the first book Jeanine Fricker designed for the book club ‘Le club du meilleur livre’. A classic layout where she plays with the lettering on the cover and the first and last pages of the book, inserting what looks like a letter to give an intimate feel to the story.

This book is published by the book club ‘Le club du meilleur livre’ in France. The books from this book club could be mail-ordered directly home, and they were not available in bookstores. 

Jeanine Fricker is a French graphic designer, very much hidden from graphic design history books, even though she had an incredible career as a book designer and art director.