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Design Category
Book design, 1970
Art director
Cameron Poulter
Collection
(1971) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

The book synthesizes the deluge of critical material by presenting particularly significant essays concerning Beckett.

Special Features: A photographic line etching was made from the jacket photo of Beckett and blind stamped on the binding. The Alcoa Aluminum endlinings add a striking contrast to the basic binding.

Credits
Designer: Ute Jansen
Editor: Melvin J. Friedman
Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Pages: 288
Quantity printed: edition of 4,000
Price: $7.95
Typeface: Linotype Baskerville, 11/13 with display in Monotype Baskerville
Typesetter: Kingsport Press, Inc.
Printer: Kingsport Press, Inc.
Printing method: offset
Paper: Warren Olde Style, 50 lb., White
Binder: Kingsport Press, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Columbia BSV 3750 Black on .080 binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round-backed
Endpapers: Alcoa Litho Sheet Silver Foil
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press (Chicago, Illinois)