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When I was working at TV Books, we put out a heavily illustrated, square bound hardcover book titled The Story of Golf. When time came to put out a trade paperback of the title, though, the decision was taken to print it in a more economical 8″x10″ format…which meant the book needed to be entirely redesigned. Rather than going out of house, as was done for the hardcover, the book was handed over to me to rethink from scratch. The job offered some challenges—for one thing, we no longer had the original images, but only the resized and cropped images used in the hardcover—but it was a great deal of fun to work on, with a fascinating text and tons of great photos. Unfortunately, the project ran into the shutting of the publishing house and the paperback was never printed, but I still have some of the chapters I worked on, and I offer a few sample spreads above.
The book is no longer in print, of course, but you might be able to pick up a copy of the original hardcover on a used book site, or as a used book on Amazon (no “Look Inside” available, unfortunately).