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Design Category

Book design, 1969

Designer

Robert R. Reid

Collection

(1970) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

Three edition produced simultaneously, of paperback, regular hardcover and 100 numbered illustrated edition to permit first volume of published poems by Malcolm Miller to exist in a distinguished first edition.

Credits

Author: Malcolm Miller
Size: 5.75 x 9.5 inches
Pages: 96
Quantity printed: edition of 100
Price: $12.00
Typeface: IBM Selectric Composer Univers Medium, 11/12, with display handset in Letraset Helvetica
Typesetter: VIP Graphics, Ltd.
Printer: Robert Thoms and Company
Printing methods: offset , hand silk-screened by the artist (color illustrations)
Paper: Rolland Laurentic Japan, varnish added to color illustrations
Binder: Montreal Bindery Service
Binding materials: bound in Columbia Bolton Natural Finish on 80–100 pt. Bennett board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn
Publisher: Tundra Books of Montreal (Quebec City, Quebec, Canada)