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A Few Flies and I: Haiku by Issa

Design Category
Book design, 1969
Designer
Harriet Banner
Collection
(1970) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

Issa is one of the masters of haiku: delicate, allusive, 17-syllable Japanese poetry. He is faithfully represented, as is haiku itself, in this new collection of more than one hundred of his poems.

Credits
Illustrator: Ronni Solbert
Authors: Jean Merrill (selection), Ronni Solbert (selection)
Size: 5.25 x 8.25 inches
Pages: 96
Quantity printed: edition of 12,000
Price: $3.95
Typeface: English Monotype Centaur, 14/18 with display in English Monotype Centaur
Typesetter: Westcott & Thomson, Inc.
Printer: Rae Publishing Company, Inc.
Printing method: offset
Paper: Hammermill Decision Offset
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder: A. Horowitz & Son
Binding materials: bound in G.S.B. s/535 Nile Green on .085 pasted board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, flat-backed
Endpapers: Canfield Colortext Maize
Publisher: Pantheon Books (New York, New York)