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The Unanswered Question

Design Category
Book design, 1976
Designer
Edith Allard
Collection
(1977) The Book Show: Not Exactly Books
Description

The book was slipcased and designed to handle 3 records along with the book in a single package.

Credits
Production manager: Susan Hayes
Author: Leonard Bernstein
Size: 7.75 x 9.75 inches
Quantity printed: first printing of 6,000
Price: $20.00
Typefaces: Text in 10/13 Linotype Palatino, Display in Linotype Palatino
Typesetter: Eastern Typesetting Company
Printer/binder: Halliday Lithograph Corporation
Printing method: Text: offset; Black/white illustrations: 150-line screen offset
Paper: Finch Book Opaque, 60 lb. brite white
Paper manufacturer: Finch, Pruyn Paper Company
Paper supplies: Pratt Paper Company
Binding materials: Kivar #5 white preprinted, on 80 pt. binder board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Publisher: Harvard University Press