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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
Author: Emily Blair Chewning
Size: 9.25 x 12.75 inches
Pages: 72
Quantity printed: first printing of 20,000
Price: $5.95
Typefaces: Text in10/11 Haber Super System Goudy Old Style, Display in Haber Super System Goudy Hand Tooled
Typesetter: Haber Typographers
Printer/binder: Dai Nippon Printing Company
Printing method: Text: offset, Black/white and 4-color illustrations: offset 150-line screen
Jacket printer: Hokuetsu Mills
Papers: New Age Matte, 106 lb. clay coated, Jacket: 86 gloss coated jacket (Perfect ā€œWā€ 12 pt. for paper cover)
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 Printing Company
Publisher: Crown