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Design Category
Book design, 1974
Art director/designer
William A. Seabright
Collection
(1975) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

This is a fresh selection of the finest of American short stories, poems, and non-fiction from the beginnings to the present day. The primary audience for the book is high school students.

Credits
Photography: various American photographers
Jacket painting: Helen Frankenthaler
Editors: David R. Weimer, Joan Myers Weimer
Size: 7 x 9 inches
Pages: 832
Quantity printed: edition of 5,000
Price: $10.60
Typeface: Linotype Granjon, 11/13, with display in Monotype Garamont Oldstyle
Typesetter: Typoservice Corporation
Printer: Photopress, Inc.
Printing method: sheet-fed
Paper: Patina (Warren), 50 lb., White
Paper supplies: Chicago Paper Company
Binder: Worzalla Publishing Company
Binding materials: softbound in pre-printed Apco Tourist, 9.5 pt.
Binding method: Perfect bound
Publisher: McDougal, Littell & Company (Evanston, Illinois)