Conversations with the Dead

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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