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Biochemistry

Design Category
Book design, 1970
Art director
Albert L. Lehninger
Collection
(1971) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

The book is a definitive, up-to-date textbook for first-year Biochemistry that can be used both in college science courses and pre-med schools.

Special Features: The space-filling models (duotones) were all silhouetted and reduced in size to match accompanying chemistry structurals. Because of length of manuscript, large gutters were used in which display chemistry structurals and art could b placed so as not to interrupt solid text.

Credits
Designer: Malcolm Grear Designers, Inc.
Illustrators: Graphic Presentations, Inc., F.W. Taylor Company , Shirley Baty
Photographer: Ronald Garrett
Picture editor: Albert L. Lehninger
Author: Albert L. Lehninger
Size: 7.25 x 11.5 inches
Pages: 848
Quantity printed: edition of 20,000
Price: $17.95
Typefaces: Linofilm Melior, 10/12, with display in Linofilm Melior
Typesetters: First half of the book by Progressive Typographers, Second half by Book Graphics, Inc.
Printer: Halliday Lithograph Corporation
Printing method: Offset
Paper: Milton paper Company’s Doecote, 48 lb., Cream White
Binder: The Book Press
Binding materials: bound in Arco Vellum Pallium 890 Dark Brown on .088 binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round-backed
Endpapers: Canfield Colortext Ebony
Publisher: Worth Publishers, Inc. (New York, New York)