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Design Category
Book design, 1976
Art director/designer
Seymour Chwast
Collection
(1977) The Book Show: Paperbacks

Credits
Production manager: Murray Schwartz
Authors: Jean-Claude Suares, Seymour Chwast
Size: 9.25 x 12.75 inches
Pages: 72
Quantity printed: first printing of 15,000
Price: $5.95
Typefaces: Text in 10/11 Linotype Garamond, Display in handset Garamond
Typesetter: Haber Typographers
Printer/binder: Dai Nippon Printing Company
Printing method: Text: offset, Black/white and 4-color illustrations: offset 150-line screen
Paper: New Age Matte, 106 lb. clay coated
Paper manufacturer: Kanzaki Paper Mills
Paper supplies: Dai Nippon Printing Company
Binding materials: Asahi cloth, on Greyboard ā€œLā€ Thrush 36-Go, made by Papeyama Mills
Binding method: adhesive notch bound, square back
Endpapers: Satsuki, 63 lb.
Endpaper manufacturer: Sanko Mills
Endpaper supplies: Dai Nippon
Publisher: Crown