A Single Pebble by John Hersey (Bantam)

Elongated Latin was first cast by Stephenson Blake in 1873, preceding the nowadays more popular Bold and Wide styles of their Latin series. American foundries issued it as Latin Condensed, which is also the name used for most digital versions.

Here it can be seen in unusually excessive use on the cover of a 1961 paperback edition of A Single Pebble (Bantam A2182), which –

recounts the journey of a young American engineer traveling up the Yangtze on a river junk during the 1920s. He learns that his romantic concepts of China brings disaster.

The author, John Hersey (1914–1993), is best known for Hiroshima, his account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.

Sandy Kossin created the cover art. After studying drawing and design at Jepson Art Institute in California, Kossin moved to New York City and worked as an illustrator for Boy’s Life, Reader’s Digest, Saturday Evening Post, and many other clients. He taught at the Parsons School of Design and also at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Kossin died earlier this year, a few weeks shy of his 97th birthday.