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

Credits
Illustrator: Arnold Lobel
Production manager: Eugene Sanchez
Author: Jack Prelutsky
Size: 8 x 10 inches
Pages: 40
Quantity printed: first printing of 12,000
Price: $6.95
Typefaces: Text in 12/15 Linotype Garamond #3 Bold, Display in Linotype Garamond Bold, Typositor Century Nova
Typesetters: Sweetman Typesetters, Jo Electro
Printer: Rae Publishing Company
Printing method: Text: offset, Black/white illustrations: 150-line screen as a dropout halftone
Papers: Mohawk Superfine, 70 lb. cream, Jacket: text sheet, press varnish finish
Paper manufacturer: Mohawk Paper Company
Paper supplies: Greenwillow Books
Binder: Book Press
Binding materials: GSB #99 red (spine), made by G.S.B. Fabrics Corporation, supplied by Book Press; Multicolor jet (sides), made by Process Materirals Corporation, supplied by Book Press; on 88 pt. binders board
Binding method: side-sewn, square back
Endpapers: Multicolor jet
Endpaper manufacturer: Process Materials Corporation
Endpaper supplies: Book Press
Publisher: Greenwillow Books