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Description
To capture the sensitive and unusual quality of the text, the illustrations were shot in fine line. The book’s design intends to visually augment the mood by use of Egmont Light for body type.
Credits
Illustrator: Donna Diamond
Jacket designer: Jane Zalben
Jacket typographer: Emil P. Popp & Son
Production manager: Monica Brown
Author: John Weston
Size: 6 x 8 inches
Pages: 106
Quantity printed: first printing of 7,500
Price: $6.95
Typefaces: Text in 14/18 Linotype Egmont Light, Display in foundry Egmont Light
Typesetter: Emil P. Popp & Son Typographers
Printer: Murray Printing Company
Printing method: Text: sheet-fed offset; Black/white illustrations: fine line
Jacket printer: The Chaucer Press
Papers: Bulkopaque Vellum, 60 lb. natural, Curtis Rag natural laid (jacket paper)
Paper supplies: Bulkley Dunton Linde Lathrop
Binder: A. Horowitz & Son
Binding materials: GSB #260 sea foam, made and supplied by G.S.B. Fabrics Corporation; on 80 pt. binders board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: Multicolor Endleaf, Donegal
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
