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The Book of Alfred Kantor

Design Category
Book design, 1971
Art director
Harris Lewine
Collection
(1972) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

This is the utmost reasonable facsimile of the author’s watercooler memoirs completed in 1944-45 after internment in three German concentration camps.

Special features:  Each of the pages was shot full color to duplicate the exact aging of the paper. The jacket and binding were photographed and reproduced with title from Kantor’s original hand-bound volume.

Credits
Designer: Herb Lubalin
Illustrator: Alfred Kantor
Author: Alfred Kantor
Size: 7 x 9.25 inches
Pages: 296
Quantity printed: edition of 12,500
Price: $17.95
Typeface: Alphatype American Gothic Light, 11/12½ , with display in Photo Typositor Kabel Light and Bold
Typesetters: Typographic Innovations, Inc., Lubalin, Burns, & Company, Inc.
Printer: Princeton Polychrome Press
Printing method: Sheet-fed offset
Paper: Warren Patina II Offset, 80 lb.
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder: A. Horowitz & Son.
Binding materials: bound in Kivar 6 Antique on .098 binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn and round-backed
Endpapers: Strathmore Grandee Navarre Blue
Jacket: Champion All-Purpose Litho, 80 lb., White, supplied by Garrte-Buchanan Company
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company (New York, New York)