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New Hampshire’s Child

Design Category
Book design, 1969
Designer
P.J. Conkwright
Collection
(1970) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

This book reproduces in facsimile the childhood journals of Lesley Frost, eldest daughter of Robert Frost, written during 1905–1909 at the family farm near Derry, New Hampshire.

Credits
Author: Lesley Frost
Size: 6.5 x 9 inches
Pages: 676
Quantity printed: edition of 5,300
Price: $9.95
Typefaces: Linofilm Primer, 9/12, 8/10, and 10/14 with display in Linofilm Melior
Typesetters: The Riverside Press, Inc., Book Graphics, Inc.
Printers: The Riverside Press, Inc. , Meriden Gravure Company (duotone illustration insert)
Printing method: offset
Papers: Mohawk Tosca book Cream White Smooth Finish , duotone illustration insert: Simpson-Lee SN Text
Paper supplies: Hudson Valley Paper Company
Binder: The Riverside Press, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Columbia Riverside Chambray RVC-3621 on .080 Davey Red Label Board
Endpapers: Lindenmeyr Multicolor Dove Grey
Publisher: State University of New York Press (Albany, New York)