The Seamen’s Handbook for Shore Leave, Seventh Edition
The Merrymount Press, New York, New York, 1942
Description
Juror Notes
Here is a marvel of compression, its lamp hidden under the bushel of a mediocre cover. Intelligent planning, admirable choice of type, composition, presswork lift this seamen’s vade mecum away out of the rut.
Ray Nash
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1943)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- The Merrymount Press
- Author
- Mrs. Henry Howard
- Size
- 3.5 x 5.75 inches
- Pages
- xl, 348
- Price
- $1.00
- Typefaces
- English Monotype Times Series 327, 5.5 point, 1.5 point leading, English Monotype Perpetua Titling Series 258 and Times Series 327 (title page), 16 x 30.5 picas
- Compositor
- The Merrymount Press
- Printers
- The Merrymount Press (text), Rand McNally & Company (map)
- Printing method
- letterpress
- Paper
- Tileston & Hollingsworth City English Finish, white, sub. 50
- Binder
- Boston Bookbinding Company
- Binding
- Smyth sewn, bound between flexible boards covered with Holliston Roxite LS Vellum No. 51148 S K blue
- Stamping
- red ink (on binding)
- Publisher
- American Merchant Marine Library Association
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