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

Description

To feature this year in photography-its arts, its trends, its books, its shows. To reproduce the year’s best photography in a manner equal to the best of photography itself. To discover the new photographers.

Credits
Designer: Thomas S. Huestis
Production editor: Douglas B. Graham
Editor: Fred R. Smith
Size: 10 x 10 inches
Pages: 242
Quantity printed: first printing of 123,000
Price: $11.95, $9.95 mail order
Typefaces: text in 10/13 Linotype Helvetica Light, display in Photo-Typosistor Avant Garde Extra Light
Typesetter: Bullard/Morris & Walsh, Typographers
Printer: Regensteiner Press
Printing method: black/white illustrations: web gravure; color illustrations: sheet-fed offset
Papers: Time Roto Book Gloss, 70 lb white, Cameo Gloss, 70 lb. white
Paper manufacturers: Westvaco Corporation, S.D. Warren Company
Binder: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
Binding materials: Zeppelin cloth, black (spine), made and supplied by Holliston Mills; Kivar 5, silver (sides), made and supplied by Scott Graphics; on 88pt. pasted board
Binding method: adhesive bound, square back
Endpapers: grandee text, Artlaid grey
Endpaper manufacturer: Strathmore Paper Company
Endpaper supplies: Bulkley Dunton Linde Lathrop
Jacket: front cover printed 4-color over two hits of white-on-Silver Kivar, two separate passes through press
Publisher: Time-Life Books