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Design Category
Book design, 1969
Art director/designer
Larry Kamp
Collection
(1970) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

The purpose of this little book is, of course, to amuse. The design concept was to provide a unified look in as simple and casual a format as possible—hence polka-dot endpapers, text composed on an office typewriter instead of hard type.

Credits
Illustrator: Fernando Krahn
Author: Fernando Krahn
Size: 6.75 x 7 inches
Pages: 40
Quantity printed: edition of 8,500
Price: $3.50
Typeface: Office Typewriter
Printer: Pearl-Pressman Liberty Printing & Litho Company
Printing method: Offset
Paper: Westvaco Pinnacle Book antique white
Binder: Sendor Bindery, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Bancroft Devon 20800 Yellow on .085 pasted board
Binding method: side-sewn, flat-backed
Publisher: A Seymour Lawrence Book/Delacorte Press (New York, New York)