Tangier by Angus Stewart
Published by Hutchinson, 1977, printed by The Anchor Press and bound by Wm Brendon & Son, Tiptree, Essex; jacket photo by Paul Wakefield; designer uncredited. The typography brings together Melior schmalfett (bold condensed) (H. Zapf, Stempel 1953), sold in UK by Arnold Cook Ltd, with Algerian, a Letragraphica revival of a Stephenson Blake design from before 1908. The interior (not pictured here) is set in Monotype’s Spectrum 556.
From the inner flap:
After the publication of his first novel, Sandel, Angus Stewart went to Tangier to escape ‘orthodox Western living’, and, with very little money, plunged immediately into a captivating alien world.
His Tangier is not the picturesque town of the tourists, nor indeed the superficial scene of squalor and deprivation sometimes observed by journalists. Instead he shows how within their own terms the people of Tangier live, and how their individual customs and perceptions have been shaped out of a decidedly tortuous history.
