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Design Category
Book design, 1969
Art director
Helen Mills
Collection
(1970) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

A selection of almost 300 letters to a wide variety of persons—some famous, some unknown to the general public—covering the whole course of the poet’s life, from early boyhood to the year of his death in 1962. Because of his idiosyncratic tricks of style, spelling, punctuation, etc., composition was unusually complicated and costly.

Credits
Designer: Cynthia Krupat
Editors: F.W. Dupee, George Stade
Size: 6 x 9.25 inches
Pages: 338
Quantity printed: edition of 3,000
Price: $8.95
Typeface: Linofilm Baskerville, 10/13 with display in ATF Baskerville
Typesetter: Quinn & Boden Company, Inc.
Printers: Quinn & Boden Company, Inc., Connecticut Printers, Inc. (illustrations)
Printing method: offset
Paper: Perkins & Squier RRR
Binder: Quinn & Boden Company, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Bancroft Kennett 57180 on .080 binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round-backed
Endpapers: Lindenmeyr Multicolor Olive
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. (New York, New York)