Credits

Designer

Joseph Trautwein

Illustrator

René Martin

Map/chart designer

Emil Lowenstein

Author

Rachel Carson (adapted by Anne Terry White)

Trim size

8 x 11; Bulk: 0.5 inches

Pages

168

Price

$4.95

Compositors

The Composing Room, Inc., Huxley House

Plate maker

Western Printing and Lithographing Company, Inc.

Printer

Western Printing and Lithographing Company, Inc.

Printing method

offset (deep-etch) 4 colors throughout; printed in 36’s

Illustrations

Color paintings; color transparencies; black-and-white photographs and line drawings; reproduced by 4-color process; 4-color process with suprinted line; duotone halftone; and line over benday tint blocks (all 133 screen)

Papers

Newton Fall’s 50 x 68.75 inches—325 St. Lawrence Offset, basis 90

Binder

Western Printing and Lithographing Company, Inc.

Binding

Spine of Holliston’s Aldine Linen 11290 sand, sides of Curtis’s Tweedweave Text white, 70-lb. pre-lithographed in green ink, over .100 binders boards

Stamping

shelfback stamped with one impression of green ink

Endpapers

book is self-lined; printed similarly as the text; green top stain

Publisher

Simon and Schuster, Inc.