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Giraffe

Design Category
Book design, 1976
Art director
Lucy Bitzer
Collection
(1977) The Book Show: Juveniles
Description

A natural history subject for 7–12 age group. Extensively illustrated with black and white art. A strong design element in the art determined much of the page layout. Extensive art forced the elimination of colored endpapers.

Credits
Designers: Better Fraser, Lucy Bitzer
Illustrator: Betty Fraser
Production manager: Doris Barrett
Author: Miriam Schlein
Typefaces: Text in 14/18 Linotype Machine Hot Metal Bembo, Display in Linofilm Hobo, Garamond, and Souvenir Light
Typesetters: K & M Typographers, Haber Typographers
Printer: Pearl Pressman Liberty
Printing method: Text: offset; Black/white illustrations: 150-line screen
Paper: Mohawk Superfine Eggshell, 80 lb. white
Paper manufacturer: Mohawk Paper Mills
Paper supplies: Ris Paper Company
Binder: Keenan Binders
Binding materials: GSB 535 Venetian brown, made and supplied by G.S.B. Fabrics Corporation; on 88 pt. binders board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: white
Endpaper supplies: Keenan Binders
Publisher: Four Winds Press