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Design Category
Book design, 1971
Art director
Michael di Capua
Collection
(1972) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

Special features:  backbone stamped in Silver foil.

Credits
Illustrator: William Steig
Typographer: Jane Byers Bierhorst
Author: William Steig
Size: 10.25 x 9 inches
Pages: 32
Quantity printed: edition of 25,000
Price: $4.50
Typeface: Monotype Bembo 270, 18/22, with display in foundry Bembo and Caslon 540
Typesetter: The Press of A. Colish
Printer: Pearl-Pressman Liberty Printing & Litho Company
Printing method: Sheet-fed offset
Paper: Alpine Opaque Vellum, 80 lb., White
Quantity printed: Willman Paper Company, Inc.
Binder: Montauk Book Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in GSB S/535 Sea Green on .088 binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn and square-back
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York, New York)