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Description
This book is an essay on country music, illustrated with photographs of the top stars in that field. Since it is really a photo album, the quality of picture reproduction was out primary concern. We spent the major part of the budget on fine quality paper and a superior printing job.
Credits
Designer: Dorothy Schmiderer
Jacket designer: Irving Freeman
Photographer: Raeanne Rubenstein
Production manager: Joseph Montebello
Author: Peter McCabe
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
Pages: 160
Quantity printed: first printing of 11,500
Price: $12.50 hardbound, $5.95 paperbound
Typefaces: Text in 12/14 Linotype Cairo, Display in Linofilm Stymie Light
Typesetter: Fuller Typesetting
Printer: Murray Printing Company
Printing methods: sheet-fed offset , 3-color offset (jacket)
Papers: Lustro Offset Enamel Gloss, 80 lb. white, Lynn Art on 80 lb. coated Litho
Paper manufacturers: S.D. Warren Company, International Paper Company
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder: Haddon Craftsmen
Binding materials: Kingston #35600K3, natural finish (spine), made and supplied by Holliston Mills; Multicolor, textured, cinnabar (sides), made by Process Materials Corporation, supplied by Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation; on 85 pt. pasted board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round back
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers
