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The Inner City Mother Goose

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

A limited casebound edition was produced, along with a simultaneous paperback edition. A serious pricing problem was faced, and we tried to get maximum quality at modest budget.

Credits
Designer/illustrator: Lawrence Ratzkin
Author: Eve Merriam
Size: 8 x 8.5 inches
Pages: 96
Quantity printed: edition of 2,500
Price: $4.95
Typeface: Alphatype Century Text with Bold, 12/15 with display in Alphatype Century Bold Text
Typesetter: The Photo-Composing Room
Printer: Murray Printing Company
Printing method: offset
Paper: Chandler Juvenile Book
Paper supplies: The Alling & Cory Company
Binder: H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Duroid Imperial on .085 pasted board
Binding method: side-sewn, square-backed
Endpapers: Canfield Colortext Black
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc. (New York, New York)