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Design Category
Book design, 1971
Art director/designer
Herb Lubalin
Collection
(1972) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

This is one of the classic tales from The Arabian Nights, produced with a “limited edition” quality. The text has been contemporized.

Credits
Illustrator: Alain la Foll
Author: adapted by Bernard Noel
Size: 7 x 10.25 inches
Pages: 32
Quantity printed: edition of 10,000
Price: $4.95
Typeface: Alpahtype Plantin, 16/18, with display in Photo Typositor Plantin
Typesetter: Lubalin, Burns & Company, Inc.
Printer: Glenn Printing Company, Inc.
Printing method: Sheet-fed offset
Jacket printer: I.J. Eagle Company
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, 100 lb., Soft White Eggshell
Paper supplies: Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead
Binder: Interstate Book Manufacturers, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Kivar 5 Gray on .080 binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn and square-back
Endpapers: Mohawk Soft White Eggshell
Jacket: Gainsborough Confetti supplied by Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead
Publisher: Good Book, Inc./Doubleday & Company, Inc. (New York, New York)