Conversations with the Dead
Martin Stephen Moskof, New York, New York, 1971
Description
In 1967 Danny Lyon was given permission to photograph, without restriction, the convict life of Texas. This book is the result of fourteen months spent inside the six Taxes penitentiaries. Lyon adds a new dimension to the nationwide crusade against our useless, brutalizing and antiquated penal system.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1972)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art director
- Martin Stephen Moskof
- Designers
- Martin Stephen Moskof, Danny Lyon
- Photographer
- Danny Lyon
- Author
- Danny Lyon
- Size
- 11 x 8 inches
- Pages
- 196
- Quantity printed
- edition of 7,500
- Price
- $14.95
- Typeface
- Linotype Clardendon and Times Roman, 10/12, and faced from old typewriters—Royal, Remington, Underwood and IBM, with display in foundry Clarendon
- Typesetter
- Towne Typographers, Inc.
- Printer
- Rapoport Printing Coporation
- Printing method
- Stonetone offset
- Jacket printer
- The Longacre Press, Inc.
- Paper
- Westvaco Velvo Litho Dull, 70 lb., White
- Binder
- Montauk Book Manufacturing Company, Inc.
- Binding materials
- bound in Holliston Crown Linen Gray (sides) and GSB Islander White (spine) on .088 binder’s board
- Binding method
- Smythe-sewn and square-back
- Endpapers
- Lock Haven Endleaf, 80 lb., White
- Endpaper supplies
- Alling and Cory
- Jacket
- Northwest Mountie Label, 100 lb., supplied by Canfield Paper Company
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
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