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Honor Thy Father

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

From over six years of intimate research, Mr. Talese has produced a highly detailed and sympathetic portrait of the rise and fall of the New York Mafia organization headed by Joseph Bonanno, and has reconstructed the story of the Mafia feud that came to be known as the Banana War.
Special features:  Hard cover offset in leather-like pattern and matched to ink of cover-photograph. Cover printed and gold stamped by The Longacre Press\, Inc

Credits
Designers: Jacques Chazaud, Milton Charles
Picture editors: Jacques Chazaud, Gay Talese
Jacket typographer: composed in Photo Typositor Friz Quadrata by Richad Wood Typographers, Inc.
Author: Gay Talese
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Pages: 544
Quantity printed: edition of 50,000
Price: $10.00
Typeface: Videocomp Baskerville, 11/14, with display in Photo Typositor Friz Quadrata
Typesetter: Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.
Printers: Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., The Longacre Press, Inc.
Printing method: offset
Jacket printer: The Longacre Press, Inc.
Papers: World “G” Opaque, 50 lb., Warren Casco, 80 lb.
Paper supplies: Nationwide Papers, Inc.
Binder: Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in pre-printed Warren Patina, 80 lb., White, on .085 binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round and backed with headbands
Jacket: Warren White, 80 lb. coated
Publisher: World Publishing Company (New York, New York)