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Design Category
Book design, 1969
Designer
Samuel N. Antupit
Collection
(1970) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

This experimental novel with a limited audience required complex word arrangements varying from page to page. The text virtually dictated the form of each page. Had budgetary considerations governed, this novel could not have been published.

Credits
Illustrator: Leonard Soned
Author: Madeline Gins
Size: 6 x 8 inches
Pages: 128
Quantity printed: edition of 2,400
Price: $4.95
Typeface: Intertype Cairo, 12/14 with display in Bauer Beton Light
Typesetter: Malin Typographers, Inc.
Printer: Noble Offset Printers, Inc.
Printing method: offset
Paper: Westvaco Pinnacle Book
Paper supplies: Edition Books Paper Corporation
Binder: Publishers Book Bindery, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Bancroft Lynnene on .085 pasted board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round-backed
Endpapers: Monadnock Endleaf
Endpaper supplies: Allan & Gray Corporation
Publisher: Grossman Publishers, Inc. (New York, New York)