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Ernest Hemingway, Cub Reporter

Design Category
Book design, 1970
Art director
Margot Barbour
Collection
(1971) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

The book contains eleven newspaper stories definitely attributed to Ernest Hemingway during his brief career as a reporter on the Kansas City Star; a small but important scholarly book with popular appeal as well. Book was produced on a very limited budget.

Special Features:  Fold-out tipped into inside back cover, offset by Baucom Press in brown ink on Talisman Buckskin, 75 lb.

Credits
Designer: Gary G. Gore
Editor: Matthew J. Bruccoli
Size: 5.5 x 8 inches
Pages: 80
Quantity: edition of 5,000
Price: $4.95
Typeface: Linotype Times Roman, 11/13 with display in Foundry Times Roman
Typesetter: Heritage Printers, Inc.
Printers: Heritage Printers, Inc. , Baucom Press, Inc.
Printing methods: Letterpress, offset in brown ink (Frontispiece)
Paper: Warren Olde Style Wove, 60 lb., White
Paper supplies: Caskie Paper Company
Binder: Nicholstone Book Bindery, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Arkwright-Interlaken Pallium ALO-980 Dark Gray on .080 binder’s board, Smythe-sewn, square-backed
Endpapers: Sorg Cream White Endleaf
Endpaper supplies: Dennis Paper Company
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)