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Design Category

Book design, 1981

Art director

Reynold Ruffins

Collection

(1982) The Book Show

Credits

Designer/illustrator: Reynold Ruffins
Typographer: Cardinal Type Services, Inc.
Jacket designer: Reynold Ruffins
Jacket illustrator: Reynold Ruffins
Production manager: Marion Glick
Author: Jane Sarnoff
Editor: Lee Deadrick
Printer/binder: Halliday Lithograph Corp.
Paper: Alpine Vellum 70#
Publisher/client: Charles Scribner’s Sons