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

Description

Special features: Blind stamping on front cover: black leaf in backbone.

Credits
Illustrator: Tomi Ungerer
Typographer: Jane Byers Bierhorst
Author: Tomi Ungerer
Size: 9 x 11.75 inches
Pages: 32
Quantity printed: edition of 25,000
Price: $4.95
Typefaces: Monotype Perpetua 239, 14/17 enlarged to 16 pt. display in foundry Perpetua Titling , handlettering by Tomi Ungerer
Typesetters: The Press of A. Colish, The Composing Room, Inc.
Printer: Pearl-Pressman Liberty Printing & Litho Company
Printing method: Sheet-fed
Paper: Alpine Opaque Smooth, 80 lb., White
Paper supplies: Willman Paper Company, Inc.
Binder: Sendor Bindery, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in GSB S/535 Khaki on .088 binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth-sewn and square-back
Endpapers: Alpin Opaque Smooth White
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York, New York)