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

This book concerns the picaresque adventures of Elmyr de Hory, the ‘world’s greatest art forger,’ told by author Irving with Eugenia Sheppard-like name-droppings, Eric Ambler chase sequences, behind-the-scenes art gallery ploys, and high and low camp sexual extravaganzas. A lasting psychological level is the depths to which a man (de Hory) sings to protect and nurture his “talent.”

Special features: Stamping in Grauert Aluminum Foil

Credits
Designer: Milton Glaser
Author: Clifford Irving
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Pages: 264
Quantity printed: edition of 30,000
Price: $7.95
Typeface: Linotype DeVinne, 11/13, with display in Futura Stencil Bold
Typesetters: Vail-Ballou Press, Inc., Photo Lettering, Inc.
Printers: Vail-Ballou Press, Inc., Princeton Polychrome (color illustrations)
Printing method: offset
Paper: McGraw-Hill Antique Smooth
Paper supplies: Newton Falls Paper Mill, Inc.
Binder: Vail-Ballou Press, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Bancroft Arrestox A 19990 on 88 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round-backed
Endpapers: Artcote Silver
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company (New York, New York)