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Credits
Jacket designer: R.D. Scudellari
Photographer: various
Production manager: Ellen McNeilly
Author: Lincoln Kirstein
Size: 13.25 x 12 inches
Pages: 180
Quantity printed: first printing of 15,000
Price: $35.00
Typefaces: Text in 14/15 Alphatype Goudy Old Style, Display in Photo-Typositor Goudy
Typesetter: Typographic Innovations
Printer: Rapoport Printing Corporation
Printing method: sheet-fed offset; black/white illustrations: Stonetone process, sheet-fed offset
Paper: Paloma Mattex, 80 lb. white
Paper manufacturer: Consolidated Paper Company
Paper supplies: Bulkley Dunton Linde Lathrop
Binder: Publishers’ Bindery
Binding materials: Buckram, black (spine), made and supplied by Joanna Western Mills Company; Skivertex Popella, black (sides), made and supplied by Philip G. Whitman; on 123 pt. binder’s board.
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: Tweedweave, brown
Endpaper manufacturer: Curtis Paper Company
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Company
Jacket: printed on gold foil and die-stamped by Creative Litho
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
