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Design Category
Book design, 1976
Art director
Edward A. Burke
Collection
(1977) The Book Show: Textbooks

Description

This is an introductory text concerning the basic concepts of physical geography for beginning college students. Special Features: six four-page 4-color inserts

Credits
Designer: Suzanne G. Bennett
Illustrator: John Balbalis
Production manager: Regina Malone
Authors: Arthur N. Strahler , Alan H. Strahler
Size: 8.25 x 10 inches
Pages: 468
Quantity printed: first printing of 17,000
Price: $13.95
Typefaces: Text in 10/13 VIP Optima, Display in Typositor Avant Garde L & C Hairline
Typesetter: Graphics Art Composition
Printers: Murray Printing Company, Princeton Polychrome
Printing method: Text: offset; Black/white illustrations: 133-line screen offset; by; 4-color illustrations: 133-line screen offset
Papers: Publishers’ Matte, 50 lb. white, Insert: Sterling, 70 lb. white, gloss 2-sides
Paper manufacturers: Mead Papers, West Virginia Paper Company
Paper supplies: Paper Sales, Princeton Polychrome
Binder: Book Press
Binding materials: Kivar #6 white, made by Scott Graphics, on 80 pt. binders board
Binding method: adhesive bound
Endpapers: Multicolor Antique Tyrian purple
Endpaper manufacturer: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Endpaper supplies: Book Press
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons