Hosie’s Alphabet
Edward Aho, New York, New York, 1972
Description
Hosie was three when he asked his father to draw this alphabet for him. He helped choose the creatures in the book, and his mother and brother helped him with the big words.
The trim size was chosen in order to reproduce the art in its original size. The printing was done in Japan to maintain quality at reasonable cost.
Special features: Pre-printed cover offset by Panorama Press, Inc. in four colors to match six-color printing on jacket.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1973)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art director
- Edward Aho
- Designers
- Leonard Baskin, Edward Aho, Suzanne Haldane
- Illustrator
- Leonard Baskin
- Authors
- Hosea Baskin, Tobias Baskin, Lisa Baskin
- Size
- 7.75 x 11.25 inches
- Pages
- 64
- Quantity printed
- edition of 15,000
- Price
- $4.95
- Typesetter
- Typographics Communications, Inc.
- Printer
- Dai Nippon Printing Company, Ltd.
- Printing method
- Sheet-fed offset
- Paper
- Ginwa (Kokosaku Pulp), 80 lb., White
- Binder
- A. Horowitz & Son.
- Binding materials
- bound in pre-printed Columbia Apollo on 88 pt. binder’s board
- Binding method
- Smyth sewn, square back
- Publisher
- The Viking Press, Inc.
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