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Cole

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

The merry and sad days of the composer-lyricist whom Irvin Berlin has called “the greatest of us all”. Along with lyrics the whole world knows are many Porter lyrics never before published. From the private albums of Cole and Linda Porter are snapshots of everyone from Noel Coward to Bernard Berenson. Show programs, letters, music sheets, newspaper accounts, and excerpts from a recently discovered ballet score help round out the presentation.

Credits
Designer: Bea Feitler
Author: Brendan Gill
Editor: Robert Kimball
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Pages: 204
Quantity printed: edition of 15,000
Price: $25.00
Typeface: Linotype Palatino, 10/12, and Intertype Futura Light, 10/12, with display in foundry Broadway Engraved
Typesetter: Haber Typographers, Inc.
Printer: Rapoport Printing Corporation
Printing method: Sheet-fed Stonetone offset
Paper: Warren 1854 medium Offset, 80 lb., Text Shade
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder: Montauk Book Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Columbia Fictionete FNV 3454 on .088 binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn and round backed
Endpapers: Canfield Colortext Wisteria supplied by the binder
Jacket: silk screened by Auto Screen Print. Inc. on .077 Bright Silver Laminated Foil supplied by Shopsin Paper Company
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. (New York, New York)