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Description
The sixty-four myths and tales in this collection were chosen to display the subtlety and richness of native American oral literature. An accompanying commentary explores the nature of this art and shows how it differs from the verbal art of the West. Notes, period engravings, glossary, and bibliography.
Credits
Designer: Jane Byers Bierhorst
Production manager: Dorris Janowitz
Editor: John Bierhorst
Size: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Pages: 388
Quantity printed: first printing of 8,000
Price: $12.95
Typefaces: Text in 11/14 Linotype Bodoni Book, Display in foundry Helvetica Light, Jacket: Helvetica and Perpetua
Typesetters: American Book-Stratford Press, Boro Typographers (jacket)
Printer: Halliday Lithograph
Printing method: Text: offset; Black/white illustrations: dropout halftones and fine line reproductions
Jacket printer: Rugby Associates
Papers: 2R, 55 lb. B-32, Jacket: stock 80 lb. C.1.S., film laminated
Paper manufacturer: Glatfelter Company
Paper supplies: Perkins & Squier Company
Binding materials: GSB s/535, #10 maroon, made by G.S.B. Fabrics Corporation; on 85 pt. pasted board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round
Endpapers: Multicolor dove grey
Endpaper manufacturer: Process Materials Corporation
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
