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

Credits
Designer: Earl Tidwell
Jacket designer: Earl Tidwell
Production managers: Marylea O’Reilly, Ellen McNeilly
Author: Alfred A. Knopf
Size: 8 x 9 inches
Pages: 72
Quantity printed: first printing of 11,000
Price: $10.00
Typefaces: text in 10/13 Alphatype Olympus Trump, display in Photo-Typositor Nova Auguestea
Typesetter: Typographic Innovations
Printer: Rapoport Printing Corporation
Printing method: text: sheet-fed offset; black/white illustrations: Stonetone process, sheet-fed offset
Jacket printer: Creative Litho
Paper: Lustro Offset Enamel Dull, 80lb cream
Paper manufacturer: S.D. Warren Company
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder: A. Horowitz & Son, Bookbinders
Binding materials: Bolton buckram, BNV-3453 beige, made and supplied by Columbia Mills; on 80 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: Grandee, Cordoba brown
Endpaper manufacturer: Strathmore Paper Company
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Jacket: Americana Text, 80 lb Alama tan, made by Strathmore Paper Company
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf