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Two asterisks: cover & double page displays
BPR: Complete project management means Book and jacket design, copyediting, typesetting and pagination, printing and
binding
GCI: Typesetting and pagination means This work was done under the supervision of Fred Thompson while he was the
president of GCI.
FT: Complete production, including book and jacket design, case and binding design, typesetting and pagination, selection of printer & bindery and oversight/approval of manufacturing
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HISTORY
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Astronomy
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**Astronomy in the Maya Codices, by Harvey M. Bricker and Victoria R. Bricker
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
BPR: Complete project management. 10 × 11.87 inches. 938 pages.
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Biography
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*Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography, by David S. Reynolds
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York
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*Emily Dickinson, by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York
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**Horn Man: The Polish-American Musician in Twentieth-Century Detroit, by Laurie A. Gomulka Palazzolo
Publisher: The American-Polish Music Society (Detroit)
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**Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott, by Paul Hendrickson
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York
GCI: Typesetting and pagination
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Autobiography
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**A Life in the Balance: The Memoirs of Stanley J. Winkelman
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
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**In the Beginning: A Life Transitioning Through Two Careers
by Gerald S. Borden
Self-published and distributed. 1,000 copies.
BPR: Complete project management
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Military
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**South to Bataan, North to Mukden: The Prison Diary of Brigadier General W. E. Brougher
D. Clayton Jones, editor
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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*Reporting the War: The Journalistic Coverage of World War II, by Frederick S. Voss
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
BPR: Typesetting and pagination
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Marine History
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*Confederate Shipbuilding, by William N. Still, Jr.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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**The Diary of Christopher Columbus
Translated by Robert H. Fuson
Publisher: International Marine Publishing Company
GCI: Typesetting in black + second color, pagination and jacket composition.
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Early American History
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*Patriot Improvers, by various authors
Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. Multiple volumes.
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
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*The Library of Benjamin of Benjamin Franklin, by Edwin Wolf 2nd and Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
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**Nature’s Bounty, Nation’s Glory: The Heritage and History of Hanover County, Virginia,
by Martha W. McCartney
Publisher: Heritage and History of Hanover County, Inc.
BPR: Complete project management
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Exploration
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*Polar Hayes: The Life and Contributions of Isaac Israel Hayes, M.D., by Douglas Wamsley
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
BPR: Complete project management
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Civil War
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*Confederate Shipbuilding, by William N. Still, Jr.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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*Longstreet’s Aide: The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J. Goree
Thomas W. Cutrer, editor
Publisher: The University of Virginia Press
GCI: Typesetting and pagination
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Family History and Genealogy
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*Kimzey & Kimsey: Family Records from 1750 to 1981
Compiled and edited by Nancy K. Dempsey
Publisher: Privately published by Nancy Kimzey Dempsey, Athens, Georgia
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**Memoirs of a Statesman, by H. C. Williamson, Sr. Edited by C. Fred Thompson
Publisher: Privately published by The Press of the Good Mountain, Rochester, New York
FT: Complete production
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General
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*The Hub: Boston Past and Present, by Thomas H. O’Connor
Publisher: Northeastern University Press, Boston
BPR: Complete project management
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Corporate
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**The Bank of Covington, 1901‒1989, by Peggy Lamberson
Publisher: Privately published by the Bank of Covington, Covington, Georgia
BPR: Complete project management
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SPORTS
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History
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**A Tiger Walk Through History: The Complete Story of Auburn Football from 1892 to the Tuberville Era,
by Paul Hemphill
Publisher: A Pebble Hill Book, published by The University of Alabama Press
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*The First World Series and the Baseball Fanatics of 1903, by Roger I. Abrams
Publisher: Northeastern University Press, Boston
BPR: Complete project management
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Instruction
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**Lacrosse: Technique + Tradition, by David G. Pietramala and Neil A. Grauer
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
BPR: Complete project management, except jacket design
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Fishing
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*Fishing the Delaware Valley, by George H. Ingram, Jr., Robert F. Marler, Jr., and Robert R. Smith
Publisher: Temple University Press
BPR: Project management for book design, typesetting, and pagination
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RELIGION
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Theology
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*The Gospel of Grace, by Chad Sychtysz Publisher: Religious Supply, Inc., Louisville
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**Prayer and Providence, by Homer Hailey
Publisher: Religious Supply, Inc., Louisville
BPR: Complete project management, including jacket, case, and book typography by Fred Thompson. The beautiful calligraphy was done by an art professor at the Yale School of Art whose name I misplaced. Please forgive me. (FT)
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History
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**The Restoration in Russell’s Valley and Northwest Alabama: 1842–1945, by Earl Kimbrough
Publisher: Privately published
BPR: Complete project management
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ART
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Museum Guides
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*The American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Marshall B. Davidson and Elizabeth Stillinger
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York
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*In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, by Doreen Bolger Burke, Jonathan
Freedman, et al.
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ⋅ Rizzoli, New York
GCI: Typesetting and complete page make-up with heavy
illustration
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Artists Works
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*Michelangelo’s Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation, by Edith Balas
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
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*Joseph Csáky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture, by Edith Balas
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
BPR: Complete project management
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Large Display Book
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**Two Centuries of Prints in America: 1680–1880: A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection,
by E. McSherry Fowble
Publisher: The University of Virginia Press
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**South by Southeast, by Ray Ellis and Walter Cronkite
Publisher: Oxmoor House, Inc., Birmingham
GCI: Typesetting and repros
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ARCHITECTURE
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**Architecture of Neel Reid in Georgia, by James Grady
Commissioned by The Peachtree–Cherokee Trust
Published and distributed by the University of Georgia Press
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**Architecture of Middle Georgia: The Oconee Area, by John Linley
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
FT: Complete project management, including book, jacket, and case design
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SCIENCE
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Zoology
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**The Ants, by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
BPR: Complete project management, including pagination and typesetting. 10 x 12 inches. 746 pages.
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Horticulture
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** “Forget not Mee & My Garden . . .” Selected Letters 1725–1768 of Peter Collinson, F.R.S.
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
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*The Time-Life Encyclopedia of Gardening (9 volumes)
Publisher: Time-Life Books
GCI: Typesetting and pagination of heavily illustrated books.
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**Herbaceous Perennial Plants: A Treatise on their Identification,Culture and Garden Attributes,
by Allan M. Armitage
Publisher: Varsity Press, Inc., Athens, Georgia
BPR: Complete project management. Book design and pagination by Fred Thompson. Casebound and softcover editions. -
*Toxic Plants of North America, by George E. Burrows and Ronald J. Tyrl
Publisher: Iowa State University Press, Ames
BPR: Complete project management. 8.5 × 11 inches. 1,350 pages.
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Ichthyology
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**Fishes of Alabama, by Herbert T. Bochung, Jr. and Richard L. Mayden
Illustrations by Joseph R. Tomelleri
Publisher: Smithsonian Books, Washington, D.C.
BPR: Interior page design, typesetting, and pagination by Fred Thompson.
11 × 10 inches, 754 pages + 112 plates. 4-color process throughout.
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Veterinary Medicine
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**Field Manual of Wildlife Diseases in the Southeastern United States. 2024.
FOURTH EDITION. Nicole M. Nemeth and Michael J. Yabsley, editors
Publisher: Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study,
College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
BPR: Complete project management. 5.12 × 9.25 inches. 4-color process
throughout. Smythe sewn, flexible binding with printed embossed vinyl covers. 5,000 copies.
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Optics, History of
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**Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes, by Vincent Ilardi
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
BPR: Complete project management. 8 × 9.25 inches.
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COOKBOOKS
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Major Market Cookbooks
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**The Way to Cook, by Julia Child
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York
GCI: Typesetting and pagination. 9.25 × 10.875 inches. 526 pages. Text in black + one color. Positioning for over 400 illustrations, all printed in 4-color process. -
**Tupperware Cooks! Favorite Recipes of Notable Celebrities and World Renowned Chefs
Publisher: Tupperware® Brands Corporation
BPR: Complete project management. 9 × 10.875 inches. 128 pages. 4-color process. Soft cover with 4.5
inch fold-overs. 50,000 copies. Typeset in five languages. Printed in Hong Kong by Asia Pacific Offset.
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GENERAL
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Humanities
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*The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II
Edited by David A. Hollinger
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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*Stacked Deck: A Story of Selfishness in America, by Lawrence E. Mitchell
Publisher: Temple University Press
BPR: Complete project management
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