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NY: THE LITERARY GUILD OF AMERICA, 1929 Book. Good. Hardcover. TITLE: LAUGHING BOY By OLIVER LA FARGE 1929 AUTHOR: OLIVER LA FARGE PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: THE LITERARY GUILD OF AMERICA 1929 on copyright and title pages EDITION: Reprint Edition but possible First Edition for The Literary Guild CATEGORY: Literature BINDING/COVER: Hardback without dust jacket COLOR: GREEN CONDITION: The book is without a dust jacket. The outside is in good condition; there is a sunning to the spine; the back board has a discolor spot near the top corner edge; the outside has a used look about it. The inside of the book is in good condition; the pages have started to age brown evenly throughout. Book is without marks or writings, pages are browning clean and book is tight and sturdy. All the pages are present in book. There is some minor spotting to the lower edge of pages 300 and 301. SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) PAGES: 302 pages. Good/None dust jacket condition.… Read More

Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. This copy has been extensively extra-illustrated in the 1990s by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin and then bound in an amazing designer binding by the Dragonfly Bindery-Studio. The late Ernest Franklin was famous for his illustrations of the novels of Tony Hillerman, and in this special copy of this classic Pulitzer Prize winning novel of Navajo life, Franklin has drawn and added 10 original full page signed watercolor illustrations of the text. Additionally there is a signed ink drawing portrait of the book’s protagonist Laughing Boy, plus 21 small pen & ink Franklin drawings each at the beginning of the individual chapters. The book has been bound in a special artists binding which recreates a wraparound Navajo blanket using pieces of colored leather in black, red, and white. The book is also enclosed in a matching designer leather and cloth clamshell box. The whole production is very striking and attractive. This volume is a… Read More