The announcement is set in the same typeface that the texts Choose Your Own Adventure series were set: ITC Souvenir.<p>The title texts on the cover were ITC Korinna.<p>These seemed to be a popular choice in the late '70s/early '80s. I remember TSR Advanced Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks and modules, among other things, used the same faces.
My first forays into BASIC programming were laboriously copying the text from a choose your own adventure and making a simple online version using IFs an GOSUBs.
It took me only a few seconds to recognize the name (the other would be Edward Packard).<p>"Choose your own adventure" were my introduction to "real" books as a kid, I loved them, I probably read each one of the several dozens I owned a dozen of times.<p>They definitely sparked my interest for both fiction and games.
I've noticed that R.A. Montgomery's CYOA books seem to get a bad rap for being too meandering/hippy/trippy. This is the exact reason why his entries in the series have always been my favorites.