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Masks

Design Category
Book design, 1973
Art director/designer
Samuel N. Antupit
Collection
(1974) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

By exploring historical origins of marks, from Cleopatra and her cosmetics to the Apollo astronaut helmets, the author demonstrates that masks are ubiquitous social facades that comment upon cultures and often reveal as much as they hide.

Special features: Jacket has die-cut eyes, revealing photograph of eyes on binding front (pasted label).

Credits
Picture editor: Samuel N. Antupit
Author: Jamie Shalleck
Size: 8 x 8.5 inches
Pages: 180
Quantity printed: edition of 4,500
Price: $12.50
Typeface: Linotype Bodoni Book, 12/16, with display in foundry Thorowgood Italic
Typesetter: Howard O. Bullard, Inc.
Quantity printed: Halliday Lithograph Corporation
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Alpine Opaque Vellum (Georgia Pacific), 70 lb., Natural
Paper supplies: Willman Paper Company, Inc.
Binder: Montauk Book Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Columbia Fictionette Orange on 80 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: Multicolor Antique (Process materials) Lemon Yellow
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Publisher: The Viking Press/Subsistence Press (New York, New York)