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Design Category
Book design, 1975
Art director
Christopher Holme
Collection
(1976) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

An extraordinary collection of pictures taken in America by one of the world’s greatest photographers. From land, water, and sky, Ernest Haas…provides unique glimpses of this vast country’s natural phenomena, man-made creations, and people.

Credits
Designer: Bryan Holme
Photographer: Ernst Haas
Production manager: Peter Grent
Author: Ernst Haas
Size: 13 x 9 inches
Pages: 144
Quantity printed: first printing of 35,000
Price: $42.50
Typefaces: Text in 12/15 Linofilm Palatino, Display in 30 pt. Linofilm Palatino
Typesetter: Ruttle, Shaw & Wetherill
Printer/binder: Roto/Sadag, S.A. (Geneva)
Printing: Text and black/white illustrations: sheet-fed offset; Color illustrations: gravure
Binding materials: cloth, blue; on 88 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Publisher: Viking Press