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Design Category
Book design, 1976
Designer
Kay Lee
Collection
(1977) The Book Show: Juveniles

Description

Creative design to complement panoramic photography on a definitive study of the American stork. Added design elements, layouts, and mechanicals done in house to create economical package.

Credits
Jacket designer: Rubin Pfeffer
Photographer: Ozzie Sweet
Author: Jack Denton Scott
Production manager: Steven Davidson
Size: 8 x 9.75 inches
Pages: 64
Quantity printed: first printing of 10,000
Price: $6.50
Typefaces: Text in 14/17 Hot Metal Electra with Cursive, Display in Hot Metal Palatino
Typesetter: American Book-Stratford Press
Printer: Halliday Lithography
Printing methods: Text: lithography; Black/white illustrations: 150-line screen, Jacket: 2-color
Jacket printer: Algen Press
Paper: Glatco Smooth, 80 lb. white coated smooth
Paper manufacturer: Glatfelter Company
Paper supplies: Perkins & Squier Company
Binder: Book Press
Binding materials: Fictionette black (spine) made by Columbia Mills, supplied by Book Press; Elephant Hid Mistral (sides) supplied by Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation; on 88 pt. binders board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back, stamped in silver foil
Endpapers: 80 lb. white uncoated
Endpaper supplies: Book Press
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich