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The New York City Ballet

Design Category
Book design, 1973
Art director/designer
R.D. Scudellari
Collection
(1974) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

Here, in “imaginary diary” form, with hundreds of photographs, is the story on one of America’s cultural glories. Publication of the book coincides with the Ballet’s 25th anniversary.

Credits
Photographers: Martha Swope, George Platt Lynes
Author: Lincoln Kirstein
Size: 11.75 x 11.75 inches
Pages: 264
Quantity printed: edition of 15,000
Price: $35.00
Typeface: Alphatype Cheltenham Medium and Oldstyle Bold, 11/12, with display in Photo Typositor ITC Serif Gothic Bold and Open
Typesetters: University Graphics, Inc., Typographic Innovations, Inc.
Color separator: Chanticleer Press
Printer: Rapoport Printing Corporation
Printing method: offset, stonetone process
Jacket printer: Creative Lithography, Inc.
Papers: Lustro Offset Enamel Gloss and Dull (Warren), 80 lb., White, Sunray Opaque Vellum (Hopper), 70 lb., White
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporationa
Binder: A. Horowitz & Son, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Buksyn Black, supplied by Philip G. Whitman, Inc., on 98 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: Strathmore Grandee Toro Black
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr
Jacket: silver foil film-laminated to white stock
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, New York)