AIGA Design Archives: Birds of Basel

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Design Category

Book design, 1969

Art director/designer

Atha Tehon

Collection

(1970) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

The hero of this tale is Basilisk, a green bird hatched from a cock’s egg. With the help of his friend, Jabez Crow, Basilisk sets out to discover the true history of the enchanted town of Basel and to unravel the mysterious identity of the Great Enchanter himself.

Credits

Illustrator: Marian Parry
Author: Marian Parry
Size: 6.5 x 8 inches
Pages: 64
Quantity printed: edition of 9,000
Price: $3.95
Typeface: Monotype Bell, 14/17 reduced photographically with display in Monotype Bell
Typesetter: Westcott & Thomson, Inc.
Printer: Reehl Litho, Inc.
Printing method: offset
Paper: Hammermill Decision Offset
Binder: Economy Bookbinding Corporation
Binding materials: bound in G.S.B. s/535 No. 21 Norse Blue on .085 pasted board
Binding method: side-sewn, square-backed
Endpapers: Canfield Colortext Civic Gray
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (New York, New York)