Four Masterworks of American Indian Literature
Michael di Capua, New York, New York, 1974
Description
This volume is intended as a first step toward establishing a body of standard works, a canon, of native American literature. Complete English texts of four major works are presented for the first time: the Aztec myth of Quetzalcoatl, the Iroquois Ritual of Condolence, the Maya Cuceb, and the Navajo Night Chant. Critical commentary, maps, text figures and bibliographies are included.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1975)
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
- 400
- Quantity printed
- edition of 10,000
- Price
- $12.95
- Typeface
- Linotype Janson, 10/13, with display in Monotype Janson
- Typesetter
- American Book-Stratford Press, Inc., Composing Room Divison
- Printer/binder
- Vail-Ballou Press, Inc.
- Printing method
- sheet-fed offset
- Jacket printer
- The Longacre Press, Inc.
- Paper
- Glatfelter Old Forge FFF Laid Finish, 5 lb.
- Paper supplies
- Perkins & Squier Company
- Binding materials
- bound in Holliston Kingston Natural Finish Black on 85 pt. binder’s board
- Binding method
- Smyth sewn, round back
- Endpapers
- Colortext Ochre
- Endpaper supplies
- Canfield Paper Company
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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