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Design Category
Book design, 1974
Art director
Betty Anderson
Collection
(1975) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

Fascinated by the place, people and the minutiae of life in the backwoods, the author has put together his “everyday history” of his own particular “somewhere”—the coastal hills of California near the Oregon border.

Credits
Designer: Earl Tidwell
Illustrator: Mark Livingston
Production manager: Terence Kelly
Author: Ray Raphael
Size: 8 x 9.25 inches
Pages: 208
Quantity printed: edition of 7,500
Price: $7.95
Typeface: Linotype Aster, 9/13 by Cherry Hill Composition, with display in Photo Typositor Clearface Regular Caps and handlettering
Typesetter: Mark Livingston
Printer: Halliday Lithograph Corporation
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Jacket printer: Philips Offset Company, Inc.
Paper: Finch Textbook Offset, 70 lb., Cream White
Paper supplies: Baldwin Paper Company, Inc.
Binder: Halliday
Binding materials: bound in Joanna Kennett Brown on 85 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round back
Endpapers: Multicolor (Process Materials) Willow Green
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, New York)