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Design Category
Book design, 1977
Designer
Laurel Wagner
Collection
(1978) The Book Show: General Trade Books

Credits
Jacket designer: Robert Anthony
Production managers: Eugene Gordon, Raymond Ferguson
Author: Italo Calvino
Editor: Helen Wolff
Size: 6 x 9.25 inches
Pages: 144-8-color insert
Quantity printed: first printing of 6,000
Price: $10.00
Typefaces: Linotype Palatino (text), Foundry Palatino (display)
Typesetter: American Book-Stratford Press, Inc.
Printer: Murray Printing Company
Jacket printer: The Chaucer Press
Separator: Offset Separations
Process: Pearl Pressman Library
Printing method: Photo-Offset
Paper: Text: 80# P&S Regular Offset Smooth Cream
Paper manufacturer: P.H. Glatfelter Company
Paper supplies: Perkins & Squier Company
Binder: The Book Press
Binding method: Spine: Kingston Vellum Finish, The Holliston Mills, Inc.; Sides: Silvertex Antala, Philips G. Whitman, Inc.; .080 binders boards; 3-piece case, flat back, Smyth sewn
Endpapers: Colortext ochre
Endpaper supplies: The Canfield Paper Company
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.