Invisible Cities
Arnold Skolnick, New York, New York, 1974
Description
This is an imaginary dialog between Venetian traveler Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, melancholy ruler of the Tartars. Polo creates jewel-like images of cities he has visited, but gradually his tales encompass elements of the modern world and the visions become tainted. The emperor is left brooding unhappily over cities which could come, such futuristic nightmares as Brave New World.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1975)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art director/designer
- Arnold Skolnick
- Jacket photograph
- Ryszard Horowitz
- Production manager
- Raymond G. Ferguson
- Author
- Italo Calvino
- Size
- 5.25 x 8 inches
- Pages
- 176
- Quantity printed
- edition of 5,000
- Price
- $6.50
- Typeface
- VIP Garamond #3 Regular and Italic, 11/15, with display in Letraset Buster
- Typesetter
- Vail-Ballou Press Inc.
- Printer/binder
- Vail-Ballou
- Printing method
- sheet-fed offset
- Jacket printer
- Algen Press Corporation
- Papers
- Special Book Offset (Glatfelter), 55 lb., White, Jacket: aluminum foil laminated stock
- Paper supplies
- Perkins & Squier Company
- Binding materials
- bound in Holliston Kingston Linen Gray (spine) and Multicolor Textured (Process materials) Black (sides) on 72 pt. binder’s board
- Binding method
- Smyth sewn, round back
- Endpapers
- Multicolor textured Algarve Gray
- Endpaper supplies
- Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
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