The Red Swan

The Red Swan

Michael Di Capua, 1976

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.

Collections: The Book Show: Juveniles (1977)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Art director
Michael Di Capua
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
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