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It’s Mine and I’ll Write It That Way

Design Category
Book design, 1971
Art directors
Hermann Strohbach, James McGuire
Collection
(1972) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

This is written and designed as an easy-to-follow, non-sophisticated text for junior college writing courses.

Special features: The book has die-cut rounded corners.

Credits
Jacket designer: Robert Silverman
Illustrator: Dyhana Hollingsworth
Authors: Dick Friedrich, David Kuester
Size: 6.5 x 9 inches
Pages: 972
Quantity printed: edition of 7,500
Price: $3.95
Typefaces: Simoncini Permanent, 9/12, and Linotype Remington Typewriter, 10/12 and 10/10 , with display in Steeple Chase
Typesetters: Cherry Hill Composition Company, Inc., Photo-Lettering, Inc.
Printer/binder: Kingsport Press, Inc.
Printer: The Chaucer Press, Inc. (cover)
Printing methods: Offset, sheet-fed offset (cover)
Paper: Kennebac C. Printing, 60 lb., Canary
Paper supplies: Perkins-Goodwin Company
Binding materials: softbound in International Feedcoat, 10 pt., White
Binding method: Perfect bound
Publisher: Random House, Inc. (New York, New York)