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

Description

A revised, updated and lavishly illustrated biography of Greta Garbo.

Special features: Cover stamped in silver foil.

Credits
Designer: Ira Teichberg
Jacket photograph: Edward Steichen
Picture editor: Alice Marti
Author: John Bainbridge
Size: 7.75 x 10 inches
Pages: 328
Quantity printed: edition of 10,000
Price: $10.95
Typeface: Linotype Garamond 3, 14/15, with display in Syncopation
Typesetter: Headliners of New York
Printer: Halliday Lithograph Corporation
Printing method: Sheet-fed offset
Jacket printer: Pearl-Pressman Liberty Printing & Litho Company
Paper: Lindenmeyr Decision 92, 60 lb., Creamwhite
Binder: Montauk Book Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Holliston Novelex Vellum Black (spine) and Holliston Kingston Natural Black (sides) on .080 binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round and backed with headbands
Endpapers: white stock supplied by the binder
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. (New York, New York)