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Description
This is an unusual alphabet book, with each letter illustrated on a double-page spread. The border designs, different for each letter, contain hidden pictures of objects whose names begin with letter shown.
Credits
Designer/illustrator: Mitsumasa Anno
Production managers: Toshiji Horii, John Vitale
Editors: Ann Beneduce, Mioko Fujieda
Size: 9 x 9.75 inches
Pages: 64
Quantity printed: edition of 15,000
Price: $6.95
Typefaces: Text: painted letters, with display handlettered by Mitsumasa Anno, Back matter text composed in Century Oldstyle (film)
Typesetter: Ishima Studio
Printer: Seiko-Sha Printing Company, Ltd.
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Espel (Japan Paper Manufacturing Company), 100 lb., White
Paper supplies: Okamoto Company, Ltd.
Binder: Kobayash Book Binding Company
Binding materials: bound in brown cloth (spine) and pre-preprinted Okayama paper (sides) on 98 pt. binder’s board
Paper supplies: Tamura Paper Trading Company, Inc.
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: printed in New Cover (Tokyo Paper Mills)
Endpaper supplies: Tamura
Jacket: offset on Nippa Coated (Nippon Pulp Industry)
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Company (New York, New York)
