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Design Category

Book design, 1976

Art director

Lucy Bitzer

Collection

(1977) The Book Show: Juveniles

Credits

Designer: Julie Quan
Illustrator: Mercer Mayer
Production manager: Doris Barrett
Author: Jay Williams
Size: 10.75 x 8.25 inches
Pages: unpaginated
Quantity printed: first printing of 18,000
Price: $7.95
Typefaces: Text in 12/20 Photo-Typositor Optima, Display in Photo-Typositor Palatino Italic and Optima
Typesetter: Haber Typographers
Printer: Pearl Pressman Liberty
Printing method: Text: offset; black/white illustrations:150-line screen
Paper: Patina, 80 lb. white matte finish
Paper manufacturer: S.D. Warren Company
Paper supplies: LIndenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder: A. Horowitz & Sons
Binding materials: Fictionette blue; on 88 pt. binders board
Binding method: Side-sewn, square back
Publisher: Four Winds Press