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Design Category
Book design, 1971
Art director
Michael di Capua
Collection
(1972) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

Special features: Spine stamped in red and black foil.

Credits
Designer: Jane Byers Bierhorst
Typographer: Jane Byers Bierhorst
Illustrator: Donald Barthelme
Author: Donald Barthelme
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
Pages: 32
Quantity printed: edition of 12,500
Price: $4.95
Typefaces: Monotype Bodoni 175, 12/17, with display in foundry Romantique , Jacket: composed in foundry Roman Elongated Shaded and Engraver’s Bold
Typesetters: Howard O. Bullard, Inc., Boro Typographers, Inc.
Printer: Reehl Litho, Inc.
Printing method: Sheet-fed offset
Paper: Alpine Opaque Smooth, 80 lb., White
Paper supplies: Willman Paper Company, Inc.
Binder: Montauk Book Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in GSB S/535 Dublin Green on .088 binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn and square-back
Endpapers: Canfield Colortext Ebony
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York, New York)