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Design Category
Book design, 1970
Art directors
Corita Kent, Robert Reed
Collection
(1971) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

The gaiety, the spirit, the excitement that is the circus, is here in a tumble of color and design: the letters of the alphabet dance, ride bareback, clown, walk tightrope, acrobat their way through fluorescent colors of circus magic and capture the magic of life as they do so.

Special Features: The book comes accompanied by a boxed set of duplicate loose prints. Book and printed are packaged in a slipcase manufactured by CAL Industries. Printing is in 7 colors: yellow, red, blue, black, plus iridescent pink, red and orange.

Credits
Designers: Corita Kent, Robert Craven
Illustrator: Corita Kent
Author: Corita Kent
Size: 10.5 x 10.5 inches
Pages: 60 + 30 boxed duplicate prints
Quantity printed: edition of 3,000
Price: $25.00
Typeface: Alphatype Garamond Italic, 24/29, with display handlettered by Corita Kent
Typesetter: Boro Typographers, Inc.
Printer: Universal Printing Company
Printing method: Offset
Paper: Warren Flokote Offset, 80 lb., White
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder: Interstate Bindery Company
Binding materials: bound in Columbia Fictionette Black on .080 binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, square-backed
Endpapers: Selfprinted
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winsont, Inc. (New York, New York)