The Legendary Champions
Elaine Gongora, New York, New York, 1972
Description
Inspired by the prize-winning documentary film of the same title, this book tells the exciting story of the great heavyweight boxing champions. The illustrations, many of them quite rare, include photographs, excerpts from early films, and reproduction of posters, painting and old engravings.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1973)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art director
- Elaine Gongora
- Designer
- Ira Teichberg
- Picture editor
- Alan Bodian
- Author
- Rex Lardner
- Size
- 8.25 x 11 inches
- Pages
- 304
- Quantity printed
- edition of 12,500
- Price
- $12.95
- Typeface
- Alphatype Bookman X, 10/11, with display handlettered by Ira Teichberg
- Typesetter
- University graphics, Inc.
- Printing
- Entire book printed in PMS 448 brown ink.
- Printer
- Halliday Lithograph Corporation
- Printing method
- Sheet-fed offset
- Paper
- Decision Offset, 60 lb., natural
- Paper supplies
- Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
- Binder
- The Book Press, Inc.
- Binding materials
- bound in Holliston Zeppelin Black (spine) and preprinted Multicolor Nutmeg (sides) on 88 pt. binder’s board
- Binding method
- Smyth sewn, round back
- Endpapers
- pre-printed Multicolor Nutmeg, offset by The Longacre Press, Inc.
- Publisher
- American Heritage Press
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