SCHLUMP - Hans Herbert Grimm
Schlump an anti-war novel published anonymously in 1928, which was banned by the Nazis. The story depicts the First World War from Schlump’s perspective.
The cover needed to convey that the novel is brutal, funny and charming with a great sense of the era. Research for the project, threw up A Specimen Book of Pattern Papers designed for and in use at the Curwen Press with designs by Enid Marx, Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden. The patterns used for endpapers are very geometric, and the ink has a beautiful hand-printed quality, especially where colours overlap. This inspired the commission of lino-cut artist Clare Curtis for the cover and endpapers. Her brief was to produce a similarly geometric pattern, where Schlump would be the lone soldier that breaks free from the regimented German troops.
Published by Vintage Classics in May
