Maya Explorer: John Lloyd Stephens and the lost cities of Central America and Yucatan

Will Ransom, Dick Underwood (cover design), Norman, Oklahoma, 1947

Decorative, unusual chapter openings.

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1948)

Discipline: Book design

Format: Book

Designers: Will Ransom, Dick Underwood (cover design)
Author: Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen
Trim size: 6 x 9 inches
Pages: xviii, 324
Price: $5.00
Typefaces: Linotype Janson, 11 pt., 2 pt. leading, Handlettering (display), Type Measure: 25 x 40 picas
Compositor: University of Oklahoma Press
Printers: University of Oklahoma Press, Meriden Gravure Company
Printing methods: letterpress, offset (illustrations)
Papers: Warren's Olde Style (publishers' white), Mohawk Superfine Text white (illustrations)
Paper supplies: Western Newspaper Union
Binder: Brock & Rankin
Binding materials: Cloth, Bancroft Arrestox B 5085
Stamping: imitation roll gold
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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