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Fine Print, Vol 7, No 4, 1981

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Content includes:
Successful Small Press Publishing Strategies,
The Small Fine Press as Business
Recent Press Books
On Type
Book Arts Reporter: Omaha
Reference Shelf, 136
Book Notice

Cover design by Sebastian Carter, Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, England. Interior typography based on a design by Linnea Gentry, Amaranth Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Composed in Jan van Krimpen’s Monotype Spectrum by Mackenzie-Harris Corp., San Francisco. Letterpress by Wesley B. Tanner and Will H. Powers, Berkeley, California. Illustrations printed by Helicon Press, San Francisco.

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  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Sebastian Carter
  • Year: 1981
  • Client/Publisher: Sandra Kirshenbaum
  • Size: 230mm x 310mm

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Fine Print, Vol 7, No 4, 1981
Fine Print, Vol 7, No 4, 1981. Cover design by Sebastian Carter
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