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Design Category
Book design, 1971
Art directors
Bryan Holme, Nicolas Ducrot
Collection
(1972) Fifty Books of the Year

Credits
Designers: Ernst Haas (photographs), Irwin Wolf (typography)
Photographer: Ernst Haas
Author: Ernst Haas
Size: 13.25 x 9 inches
Pages: 160
Quantity printed: edition of 26,000
Price: $25.00
Typeface: Linotype Garamond Bold 3, 12/14, with display in Linotype Garamond Bold 3 Italic
Typesetter: Haber Typographers, Inc.
Printer/binder: C.J. Bucher Ltd., Lucerne
Printing method: Text: sheet-fed offset, Color illustrations: gravure
Paper: High Bulk Offset, 120lb., dull coated stock, 100 lb.
Binding materials: bound in Mattleinen Brown on 80 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Lumbeck bound, square back with headbands
Endpapers: brown stock, supplied by the binder
Jacket: offset and silk screened on coated machine calendered paper, 95 lb., supplied by printer.
Publisher: The Viking Press, Inc. (New York, New York)