Who’s Afraid?

Who’s Afraid?

Harris Lewine, New York, New York, 1971

Description

An intimate dictionary oh phobias, the book utilizes Seymour Chwast’s hair-on-end little man, in the same position throughout the book with various phobic juxtapositions, e.g. fear of animals, heights, dirt, death, etc. All illustrations except endpapers and jacket are part title illustrations which come before the individual letter of the alphabet.

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1972)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Art director
Harris Lewine
Designer/illustrator
Seymour Chwast
Author
Barbara Fried
Size
5.25 x 8 inches
Pages
96
Quantity printed
edition of 4,000
Price
$5.95
Typeface
Linotype Times Roman, 11/13, with display in foundry Windsor
Typesetters
Brown Bros. Linotypers, Inc., Haber Typographers, Inc.
Printer
Vail-Ballou Press, Inc.
Printing method
Sheet-fed offset
Jacket printer
The Longacre Press, Inc.
Paper
McGraw-Hill Antique Offset, 60 lb.
Binder
Vail-Ballou Press, Inc.
Binding materials
bound in Holliston Sturdetan Black on .070 binder’s board
Binding method
Smythe-sewn, round and backed with headbands
Endpapers
Lindenmeyr Multicolor Ash Gray
Jacket
Curtis Colophon Text, 80 lb., White
Paper supplies
Canfield Paper Company
Embossing
Freedman Cut-Outs, Inc. (Jacket illustration)
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Book Company
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