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
Loading...
Loading...