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Die größere Liebe (title)

Fancy umlaut and unorthodox capital eszett both on the jacket and the cover of a German novel.

 

Hans-Jürgen Steinmann: Die größere Liebe. Halle (Saale): Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1971. Dust jacket and cover: Günter Gnauck. Printing: Karl-Marx-Werk Pößneck [sic], GDR

 

The spine has a less expressive version of this maverick character (‘Leipziger Form’, more or less). The typographic title inside the book exhibits the conventional double S, of course.

 

By the way: the book is set in Tschörtner-Antiqua, designed by Hellmuth Tschörtner and published in 1955 by VEB Typoart Dresden. Andreas Seidel recently has revived this typeface as Toshna.

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