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And I Must Hurry for The Sea Is Coming in

Design Category
Book design, 1969
Art director
Carl Koenig
Collection
(1970) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

The book makes a poignant plea for the ghetto child and his dreams of another life. It was color-separated and printed in Japan in order to keep the list price as low as possible.

Credits
Designer: Herb Lubalin
Photographer: Dewayne Dalrymple
Authors: George Mendoza, Dewayne Dalrymple
Size: 9 x 7 inches
Pages: 32
Quantity printed: edition of 10,000
Price: $3.95
Typeface: Linofilm Janson Italic, 18 and 24 with display in Linofilm Jenson Italic
Typesetter: TypoGraphics Communications, Inc.
Printer: Dai Nippon, Tokyo
Printing method: offset
Paper: glossy coated Japanese paper
Binder: Sendor Bindery, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Bancroft Arrestox 19990 Black on 80 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: side-sewn, square-backed
Endpapers: Lindenmeyr Multicolor
Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Englewood-Cliffs, New Jersey)