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Lot #6133
WhaleSong Book - First Coffee-Table Book Created with Apple's Desktop Publishing Tools

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Signed book: WhaleSong: A Pictorial History of Whaling and Hawai'i. First trade edition. Honolulu, Hawaii: Beyond Words Publishing Co., 1986. Hardcover with dust jacket and slipcase, 8.75 x 11.5, 130 pages. Signed on an opening page in black ballpoint by MacKinnon Simpson (writer and researcher) and Robert B. Goodman (editor, designer, and photographer). In fine condition, with a slight stain on the front of the dust jacket.

Whale Song is the first coffee-table book created with Apple's desktop publishing tools. It was entirely designed, typeset, assembled, proofed, and readied for the printer on the Macintosh Plus computer and LaserWriter printer.

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