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

Description

This book celebrates the architectural feast that is San Francisco. Here, in all their individuality, style and ornamental detail, are the houses and public buildings which constitute a great wealth of native American architecture.

Credits
Designer: Clint Anglin
Jacket designer: Jack Ribik
Photography: Curt Bruce
Calligrapher: Ray Cruz
Production managers: Terence Kelly, Ellen McNeilly
Author: Thomas Aidala (text)
Size: 8 x 9.25 inches
Pages: 224 plus 8 page full-color insert
Quantity printed: edition of 10,000
Price: $12.95
Typeface: Alphatype Goudy Oldstyle, 11/14, by University Graphics, Inc., with display in St. Clair (film)
Typesetter: TypoGraphic Innovations, Inc.
Color separator: Falcon Color, Inc.
Printers: The Murray Printing Company , Philips Offset Company, Inc. (color insert)
Printing method: sheet-fed
Jacket printer: Philips
Paper: Finch Textbook Offset, 70 lb., Cream White
Paper supplies: Baldwin Paper Company, Inc.
Binder: The Book Press
Binding materials: bound in Joanna Kennett Maroon (spine) and Multicolor (Process Materials) Muscatel (sides) on 95 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round back
Endpapers: Multicolor
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, New York)