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Description
This picture book of brilliant full-color paintings filled with intricate detail and humor shows how people live in eighteen different cities—where they work, how they get about, and the ways in which they entertain themselves. (All ages.)
Credits
Designers: Piero Ventura, Grace Clarke
Illustrator: Piero Ventura
Production manager: Ada Vine
Author: Piero Ventura
Editor: Walter Retan
Size: 9.25 x 12.5 inches
Pages: 64
Quantity printed: first printing of 30,000
Price: $4.95
Typefaces: text in 14/17 Fototronic Bembo, display in Windsor Bold
Typesetters: York Graphic Services, Lettering, Piero Ventura (hand-lettering)
Color separator: Northwestern Color Graphics, division of George Banta Company
Printer: A. Hoen & Company
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Jacket printer: Rae Publishing Co.
Paper: Southern offset, 80lb. white
Paper manufacturers: Union Camp Corporation, Mead paper Group (jacket)
Paper supplies: Richard Bauer
Binder: Economy Bookbinding Corporation
Binding materials: paper, 80 lb. white, coated one side, made by Mead Paper Group, supplied by Rae Publishing Company; on 95 pt. pasted board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: self-ends
Endpaper manufacturer: Union Camp Corporation
Endpaper supplies: Richard Bauer
Jacket: sheet laminated, 80 lb. coated one side
Publisher: Random House
