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Design Category
Book design, 1974
Art director/designer
Walter H. Lorraine
Collection
(1975) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

William Kurelek has drawn on his own memories and experiences as a lumberback to describe a way of life that has virtually disappeared. The publisher comments, “We strove for the best possible reproduction and binding we could get while keeping the price down so that a wide audience could enjoy this painter’s work.”

Credits
Illustrator: William Kurelek
Production manager: Morton H. Baker
Size: 11 x 8.25 inches
Pages: 48
Quantity printed: edition of 20,000
Price: $6.95
Typeface: Monotype Goudy, 12/17, with display in Monotype Century Schoolbook
Typesetter: Composing Room of New England
Printer: Bradford & Bigelow
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Houghton Offset Vellum Finish (Monadnock), 80 lb.
Paper supplies: Donald Wyman, Inc.
Binder: A. Horowitz & Son.
Binding materials: bound in G.s.B. 535 Gold Dust on 80 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: Multicolor Antique (Process materials) Olive
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, Massachusetts)