The Book of Alfred Kantor
Harris Lewine, New York, New York, 1971
Description
This is the utmost reasonable facsimile of the author’s watercooler memoirs completed in 1944-45 after internment in three German concentration camps.
Special features: Each of the pages was shot full color to duplicate the exact aging of the paper. The jacket and binding were photographed and reproduced with title from Kantor’s original hand-bound volume.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1972)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art director
- Harris Lewine
- Designer
- Herb Lubalin
- Illustrator
- Alfred Kantor
- Author
- Alfred Kantor
- Size
- 7 x 9.25 inches
- Pages
- 296
- Quantity printed
- edition of 12,500
- Price
- $17.95
- Typeface
- Alphatype American Gothic Light, 11/12½ , with display in Photo Typositor Kabel Light and Bold
- Typesetters
- Typographic Innovations, Inc., Lubalin, Burns, & Company, Inc.
- Printer
- Princeton Polychrome Press
- Printing method
- Sheet-fed offset
- Paper
- Warren Patina II Offset, 80 lb.
- Paper supplies
- Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
- Binder
- A. Horowitz & Son.
- Binding materials
- bound in Kivar 6 Antique on .098 binder’s board
- Binding method
- Smythe-sewn and round-backed
- Endpapers
- Strathmore Grandee Navarre Blue
- Jacket
- Champion All-Purpose Litho, 80 lb., White, supplied by Garrte-Buchanan Company
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
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