Bill Duthie appreciated fine design and typography. He employed and encouraged many visual artists over the years, to design bookmarks and catalogues. Bob Reid was the first serious book designer in Vancouver. He designed and cut the letters for Duthie's first letterhead in 1957 and designed his first Christmas catalogue.
It commended Bruce Hutchison’s Canada: Tomorrow’s Giant; a new edition of Donald Creighton’s Dominion of the North, and Marjorie Wilkins Campbell’s “exciting” chronicle of the North West Company; then added that “Mazo de la Roche, who is certainly one of Canada’s best-known authors, has written her autobiography, Ringing the Changes, $5.00, and very pleasantly too.”
Bookmark by Tak Tanabe, 1958
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