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Dynamic Astronomy

Design Category
Book design, 1971
Art director/designer
John J. Dunleavy
Collection
(1972) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

The text is designed primarily for use by liberal arts students and general readers as an introduction to astronomy.

Special features: The flip-page sequence on the margins of each page are a unique instructional tool illustrating the basic motions of astronomy.

Credits
Illustrations: Herschel Wartik, Inc.
Jacket illustrator: Winifred Schneider (hard cover)
Picture editor: Bert N. Zelman
Author: Robert T. Dixon
Size: 8 x 9.25 inches
Pages: 384
Quantity printed: edition of 23,000
Price: $11.95
Typeface: Fototronic Medallion, 9/12, with display in Fototronic Medallion Semibold
Typesetter: York Graphic Services, Inc.
Printer: Halliday Lithograph Coporation
Printing method: Sheet-fed offset
Jacket printer: Auto Screen Print, Inc.
Printing method: silk screened
Paper: P & S Glatco Velvet, 60 lb., White
Binder: The Book Press, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Arco AVI 990 Black on 88 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round and backed with headbands
Endpapers: Weyerhaeuser Hamilton Vellum Offset
Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Englewood-Cliffs, New Jersey)