The Boy Who Sang The Birds
Jane Zalben, 1976
Description
To capture the sensitive and unusual quality of the text, the illustrations were shot in fine line. The book’s design intends to visually augment the mood by use of Egmont Light for body type.
Collections:
The Book Show: Juveniles (1977)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art director/designer
- Jane Zalben
- Illustrator
- Donna Diamond
- Jacket designer
- Jane Zalben
- Jacket typographer
- Emil P. Popp & Son
- Production manager
- Monica Brown
- Author
- John Weston
- Size
- 6 x 8 inches
- Pages
- 106
- Quantity printed
- first printing of 7,500
- Price
- $6.95
- Typefaces
- Text in 14/18 Linotype Egmont Light, Display in foundry Egmont Light
- Typesetter
- Emil P. Popp & Son Typographers
- Printer
- Murray Printing Company
- Printing method
- Text: sheet-fed offset; Black/white illustrations: fine line
- Jacket printer
- The Chaucer Press
- Papers
- Bulkopaque Vellum, 60 lb. natural, Curtis Rag natural laid (jacket paper)
- Paper supplies
- Bulkley Dunton Linde Lathrop
- Binder
- A. Horowitz & Son
- Binding materials
- GSB #260 sea foam, made and supplied by G.S.B. Fabrics Corporation; on 80 pt. binders board
- Binding method
- Smyth sewn, square back
- Endpapers
- Multicolor Endleaf, Donegal
- Endpaper supplies
- Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
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