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The World from My Window

Design Category
Book design, 1969
Art director/designer
Alan Peckolick
Collection
(1970) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

The purpose of this book is to present the world of the ghetto as seen through the eyes of those children in a collection of their poems and drawings.

Credits
Author: George Mendoza
Size: 7 x 10 inches
Pages: 96
Quantity printed: edition of 7,500
Price: $4.95
Typeface: Linotype Century Expanded, 12/13, with display in a child’s handwriting
Typesetter: The Composing Room, Inc.
Printer: Affiliated Lithographers, Inc.
Printing method: offset
Paper: Standard Blue Ridge Text Tijuana Gold and White
Binder: Economy Bookbinding Corporation
Binding materials: bound in G.S.B. 535/400 Natural
Binding method: Smythe-sewn
Publisher: Hawthorn Books, Inc. (New York, New York)