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Design Category
Book design, 1977
Designer
Ruth Ansel
Collection
(1978) The Book Show: Paperbacks

Credits
Jacket designer: Ruth Ansel
Photographer: Peter Beard
Jacket photograph: Peter Beard
Production manager: Bettina Rossner
Author: Peter Beard
Editor: Patrick Filley
Size: 9.5 x 8.5 inches
Pages: 272
Quantity printed: first printing of 20,000
Price: $9.95
Typefaces: Monotype Caslon Old Style (text), antique typefaces from the Frederic Nelson Phillips Collection (display)
Typesetter: Tri-Arts Press
Printer: Rapoport Printing Corporation
Printing method: Stonetone
Jacket printer: Rapoport Printing Corp.
Paper: 80#, matte-coated, self-binding
Paper manufacturer: P.H. Glatfelter Co.
Binder: Sendor Bindery, Inc.
Binding: Each signature individually welded by patented process
Publisher: Doubleday & Co. (A Dolphin Book)