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

Description

To tech the intricate, but practical, art of making sports clothes that really work, we used the best photography to define the style and function of the apparel and the most detailed how-to diagrams.

Special feature: real corduroy fabric, not book cloth, as cover material

Credits
Designer: Virginia Gianakos
Production editor: Douglas B. Graham
Editor: Fred R. Smith
Size: 9 x 11 inches
Pages: 188
Quantity printed: first printing of 150,000
Price: $8.95, $7.95 mail order
Typefaces: text in 12/15 Alphatype Grotesque Light, display in T & L Hairline and Book Heavy
Typesetters: Typographic Innovations, Photo Lettering
Printer/binder: R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Printing method: web offset
Paper: Time Web Dull, 75 lb. white
Paper manufacturer: Westvaco Corporation
Binding materials: Kivar 9 Corinthian, orange (spine), made and supplied b Scott Graphics; corduroy, orange (sides), made and supplied by Columbia Mills; on 88 pt. pasted board
Binding method: adhesive bound, square back
Endpapers: Canvas 2000
Endpaper manufacturer: Peninsula Paper Company
Endpaper supplies: Canfield Paper Company
Publisher: Time-Life Books