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Design Category
Book design, 1976
Art director/designer
Ava Weiss
Collection
(1977) The Book Show: Juveniles

Credits
Illustrator: Chuck Eckart
Jacket designer: Ava Weiss
Production manager: Steve Konopka
Author: Betty Baker
Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches
Pages: 150
Price: $6.95
Typefaces: Text in 14/18 Linotype Times Roman, Display in Linofilm Times Roman Italic and Typositor LSC Caslon X-Bold No. 223 Italic
Typesetters: Pyramid Composition Company, Jo Electro
Printer: M.D.R. Graphics
Printing methods: Text: offset by Book Press; Black/white illustrations: 150-line screen as a dropout halftone, Jacket: 2 colors
Jacket printer: New England Book Components
Papers: Victoria Offset, 50 lb. cream, Jacket: Multicolor café paper
Paper manufacturer: Hammermill Paper Company
Paper supplies: Greenwillow Books
Binder: Book Press
Binding materials: Permalin Cinnamon Bucram, made by Permalin Products Company, supplied by Book Press, on 80 pt. binders board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round back
Endpapers: Endpaper Stock, 1 80 lb.cream
Endpaper manufacturer: Monadnock
Endpaper supplies: Book Press
Publisher: Greenwillow Books