Please ID the title font from the 1981 sci-fi book THE JAWS OF MENX

Question

I'm sure this is an old photo type, but what's it called?

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Here's another example of it:

Answer 1

Reminds me a bit of Seagull, but so far no luck with an ID.

Answer 2

Here’s a bigger image:

 

This smells like lettering to me. The letter pairs just fit too well. Imagine the gaps that would occur when that S is preceded by an A. But I might be wrong; it could also be a typeface with alternates, or modifications. It doesn’t ring a bell, though.

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On second look, I noticed that the letters are not perfectly aligned to a common baseline: in “MENX”, M and especially X sit a tad higher than E and N. This suggests they were applied individually – which can mean dry transfer lettering*, or some cut-and-paste technique.

 

*) It’s not Letraset. The next best thing that they carried at the time were the extrabold weights of Raleigh and Romic.

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Its similar to this, though I don't know what this one is called either:

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That’s Palana, a Letraset face issued in 1980.