Who’s Afraid?
Harris Lewine, New York, New York, 1971
Description
An intimate dictionary oh phobias, the book utilizes Seymour Chwast’s hair-on-end little man, in the same position throughout the book with various phobic juxtapositions, e.g. fear of animals, heights, dirt, death, etc. All illustrations except endpapers and jacket are part title illustrations which come before the individual letter of the alphabet.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1972)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art director
- Harris Lewine
- Designer/illustrator
- Seymour Chwast
- Author
- Barbara Fried
- Size
- 5.25 x 8 inches
- Pages
- 96
- Quantity printed
- edition of 4,000
- Price
- $5.95
- Typeface
- Linotype Times Roman, 11/13, with display in foundry Windsor
- Typesetters
- Brown Bros. Linotypers, Inc., Haber Typographers, Inc.
- Printer
- Vail-Ballou Press, Inc.
- Printing method
- Sheet-fed offset
- Jacket printer
- The Longacre Press, Inc.
- Paper
- McGraw-Hill Antique Offset, 60 lb.
- Binder
- Vail-Ballou Press, Inc.
- Binding materials
- bound in Holliston Sturdetan Black on .070 binder’s board
- Binding method
- Smythe-sewn, round and backed with headbands
- Endpapers
- Lindenmeyr Multicolor Ash Gray
- Jacket
- Curtis Colophon Text, 80 lb., White
- Paper supplies
- Canfield Paper Company
- Embossing
- Freedman Cut-Outs, Inc. (Jacket illustration)
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
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