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Aurifodina, or Adventures in the Gold Region

Design Category
Book design, 1974
Art director/designer
Andrew Hoyem
Collection
(1975) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

This is a fantastical novel of the gold rush, published in 1849, resurrected by the Book Club of California and issued as its fall selection for 1974. The publications committee of the Club stipulated that this be one of the less elaborate and least expensive of their publications.

Special feature: Title on title age and paragraph on page 91 is gold stamped.

Credits
Illustrator: Bruce Conner
Production manager: Andrew Hoyem
Authors: Cantell A. Bigly, G.W. Peck, James D. Hart (preface)
Size: 5.75 x 8.5 inches
Pages: 122
Quantity printed: edition of 400
Price: $24.00
Typeface: Monotype Cochin, 12/16, with display in foundry Engravers, Engravers Shaded and Cochin Italic
Typesetters: Mackenzie & Harris, Inc., Andrew Hoyem, Printer
Printer: Andrew Hoyem
Printing method: letterpress
Paper: Curtis Rag, 80 lb., Cream
Paper supplies: Butler Paper Company
Plate maker: Graphic Arts Engraving (illustrations)
Binder: Cardoza-James Binding Company
Binding materials: bound in Holliston Roxite Vellum Black on 82. Pt binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round back
Endpapers: plain in text stock
Publisher: The Book Club of California (San Francisco, California)