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Love Is

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

In this book are captured in words of genuine warmth and understanding and expressive pictures some of the rare and wonderful qualities of love. This is a book to give, a book to enjoy alone, a book to share.

Credits
Designer: Paul Bacon
Illustrator: Paul Bacon
Author: Martha Everds
Size: 5.75 x 7.5 inches
Pages: 80
Quantity printed: edition of 25,000
Price: $2.95
Typeface: Intertype Bodoni Book with display in ATF Bodoni Open and Typositor Excelsior Script Semibold
Typesetters: Kent Typographic Service, Boro Typographers, Inc.
Printer: Consolidated Lithographing Corporation
Printing method: offset
Paper: Curtis Rag Laid Special White Offset
Paper supplies: Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead
Binder: Sendor Bindery, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Curtis Rag Laid Special White Offset on .080 binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, square-backed
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc. (New York, New York)