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Design Category
Book design, 1969
Art director/designer
Jane Byers Bierhorst
Collection
(1970) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

These nine American Indian legends were published for children for the first time in this volume. Originally collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft over a century ago, they reflect the range, color and emotional vitality of a folk tradition previously accessible only to historians and scholars.

Credits
Illustrator: Alan E. Cober
Compiler: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Editor: John Bierhorst
Size: 6.75 x 9 inches
Pages: 96
Quantity printed: edition of 10,000
Price: $3.95
Typeface: Monophoto Bembo, 15/21 with display in Monophoto Bembo
Typesetter: The Composing Room, Inc.
Printer: Halliday Lithograph Corporation
Printing method: offset
Paper: Monadnock Caress Text Eggshell
Paper supplies: Royal Paper Corporation
Binder: The Book Press
Binding materials: bound by Bancroft Kennett 48030 on 85 pt. pasted board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, flat-backed
Endpapers: Canfield Colortext Orange
Publisher: The Dial Press, Inc. (New York, New York)