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Design Category
Book design, 1973
Art director
Bernard Klein
Collection
(1974) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

Ani Maamin is a parable, a poetic retelling of a Talmudic tale. Formally it is a cantata, first performed at Carnegie Hall in 1973. A special signed edition is in the same format, with text in both French and English.

Credits
Designer: Philip Grushkin
Size: 7.5 x 9.25 inches
Pages: 112
Quantity printed: edition of 1,000
Price: $7.50
Typeface: Monotype Perpetua, 14/16, with display in foundry Perpetua
Typesetter: Santype Ltd.
Printer: Economy Graphics
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Sebago Laid, 60 lb. White
Binder: Economy Bookbinding Corporation
Binding materials: bound in Joanna Buckram Maroon on 80 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: Tweedeweave Text Tan (Curtis)
Endpaper supplies: Canfield Paper Company
Publisher: Random House, Inc.