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Design Category
Book design, 1976
Designer
Abe Lerner
Collection
(1977) The Book Show: Limited Edition and Private Press

Credits
Production manager: Abe Lerner
Author: John Dreyfus
Size: 4.5 x 7 inches
Pages: 66
Quantity printed: first printing of 11,000
Pre-press: $5.50
Typefaces: TEXT In 12/13 Monotype Fournier, Display foundry Tory Text and Monotype Goudy Text
Typesetter: The Press of A. Colish
Printers: The Press A. Colish, The Longacre Press
Printing method: Text: letterpress; Black/white illustrations; line cuts and one 150-line screen halftone, letterpress; 4-color illustrations: frontispiece offset
Paper: Ragston, 80 lb. ivory, dull coated
Paper manufacturer: Curtis Paper Company
Paper supplies: Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead
Binder: Tapley-Rutter Company
Binding materials: Oxford, blue (spine), made by Joanna Western Mills Company; Andorra Text, cinnamon, 80 lb. (sides), made by Weyerhaeuser Company, supplied by Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead; on 70 pt. binders board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round back
Publisher: The Typophiles