Mademoiselle Fifi y otros cuentos de guerra by Guy de Maupassant (Alianza, 1979)

This Spanish paperback edition of Mademoiselle Fifi and other war-themed short stories by French writer Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) was published by Alianza Editorial around 1979. Esther Benítez provided the translation.

The cover design features one of Daniel Gil’s disturbing photomontages (see also La comunicación no verbal, for example). This time Gil affixes a finger with red nail polish to the ornamented handle of some vintage silver flatware. The condensed italic with vertical contrast is Tzigane by Albert Boton, released in 1973 with Mecanorma, the French manufacturer of dry transfer lettering.

Posted as part of a series that pays tribute to Albert Boton, one of the preeminent French type designers of the past sixty years. Albert Boton died on July 20, 2023, at the age of 91.