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The Music of Their Laughter

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

The book consists of taped interviews with high school and college students about their thoughts. Text is accompanied by the author’s introductions. The problem was to give this material a clean, dramatic look on a very tight budget in order to keep price of book low.

Credits
Designer: Vincent Ceci
Authors: Roderick Thorp, Robert Blake
Size: 9 x 9 inches
Pages: 200
Quantity printed: edition of 10,000
Price: $7.95
Typefaces: Linotype Bodoni Book, 11/13 and Helvetica Bold, 10/13 with display in Stempel Helvetica Medium
Typesetter: American Book-Stratford Press, Inc.
Printer/binder: Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.
Printing method: offset
Paper: Glatfelter Old Forge, 60 lb., Shade B-52
Paper supplies: Perkins & Squier Company
Binding materials: bound in Holliston Payko Black 1575 on 80 pt. pasted board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round-backed
Endpapers: printed and supplied by Sanders Printing Corporation
Publisher: Harper & Row (New York, New York)