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Design Category
Book design, 1977
Art director
Riki Levinson
Collection
(1978) The Book Show: Juveniles

Credits
Designer: Meri Shardin
Jacket designer: Meri Shardin
Illustrator: Laszlo Kubinyi
Jacket illustrator: Laszlo Kubinyi
Production manager: Stephen Konopka
Author: Lloyd Alexander
Editor: Ann Durell
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Pages: 144
Quantity printed: first printing of 15,000
Price: $7.50
Typefaces: Linotype 14/17 Garamond No. 3 (text), Foundry Centaur (display)
Typesetters: American Book-Stratford Press. , Centaur Typositor (title display) , Boro Typographers, Inc.
Printer: Halliday Lithogrpahers Corp.
Printing method: Offset
Jacket printer: Philips Offset Co., Inc
Printing method: full color on 80# Stoneridge cream/white
Paper: 70# Finish Opaque Vellum (cream)
Paper manufacturer: Finch, Pruyn and Co.
Paper supplies: Baldwin Paper Co.
Binder: Halliday Lithographers Corp.
Binding: Kennett #46080 (blue) by Joanna Western Mills; .080 boards; Smyth sewn in 32’s, round and backed
Endpapers: Antique Thistle
Endpaper manufacturer: Multiocolor
Endpaper supplies: Process Material Corp.
Publisher: E.P. Dutton