The Littlest Snowman by Charles Tazewell (Wonder Books)
Originally published in the December 1955 issue of Coronet magazine, the Christmas story by Charles Tazewell was first published in book form in 1958 by Wonder Books, a division of Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., with pictures by George De Santis.
Reprints from 1976 as well as the undated one depicted above use Domino on the cover. In 1957, Ludwig & Mayer advertised the typeface with the following words:
The few existing fat-faced Roman types have only unessentially changed in the period of two centuries, bearing even to-day the marks of the engraving-needle. But there is a gap between these types and those of the modern subtilized display-types, which was experienced as well by the jobbing compositor as by the book decorator and the maker-up of newspaper feuilletons. Based on this knowledge of daily experience the graphic artist Alfred Riedel, Freiburg, has designed a script the characteristics of which has found a worthy symbol by the name of DOMINO: The dominating gravity of a fat-faced Roman type is united in a most unusual way with an almost winged liveliness.
Title page with the lettering that is also used for the cover of the original edition from 1958.
Spread from the book’s interior, with text set in Linotype Baskerville.
