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

Description

This photographic book for young people is the first of its kind on two ways that deaf people talk: finger spelling-forming words letter by better with the fingers of one hand, and signing—making a picture or sign with the hands for each word or idea.

Credits
Designers: Remy Charlip, George Ancona
Photographer: George Ancona
Production manager: Al Greenberg
Authors: Remy Charlip, Mary Beth, George Ancona
Size: 7.25 x 10 inches
Pages: 48
Quantity printed: edition of 15,000
Price: $4.95
Typeface: Linotype Century Expanded, 10 pt. caps, with display in foundry Century Expanded
Typesetter: Boro Typographers, Inc.
Printer: American Printers & Lithographers
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Mountie Matte (Northwest), 80 lb., White
Paper supplies: Millbrand Associates, Inc.
Binder: Lake Book Bindery
Binding materials: bound in pre-printed Linmaster Buckram on 95 pt. pasted board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Publisher: Parents’ Magazine Press (New York, New York)