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Design Category
Book design, 1975
Designers
Peter Beard, Marvin Isreal
Collection
(1976) Fifty Books of the Year

Credits
Illustrator: Kamante
Photographer: various
Production manager: Eugene Gordon
Author: Kamante
Collecting: Peter Beard
Size: 8 x 12 inches
Pages: 264
Quantity printed: first printing of 22,000
Price: $19.95
Typefaces: Text hand lettered by the author, Display in Bodoni
Printer: Rapoport Printing Corporation
Printing method: Text: sheet-fed offset; Black/white illustrations: Stonetone process, sheet-fed offset; Color illustrations; 4-color sheet-fed offset
Jacket printer: Algen Press Corporation
Printing method: 5-color offset
Paper: Mountie Matte, 80 lb. white
Paper manufacturer: Northwest Paper Division
Paper supplies: Canfield Paper Company
Binder: A. Horowitz & Son, Bookbinders
Binding materials: Kivar 1-cambric, white, pre-printed, made and supplied by Scott Graphics; on 88 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: Multiocolor: textured
Endpaper manufacturer: Materials Corporation
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmyr Paper Company
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Javanovich