Search Results: Native America: Navajo/Navaho from pacaritambo books

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1997. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Stephan Gammell. CONDITION: Very good + overall, 1977 Coward, McCann hardcover (tan boards) & dust jacket (in mylar jacket), first edition, assumed first printing. The book has been lightly perused on shelf but is overall clean & tight. The dust jacket shows light edge wear top edge. I know, it sounds like less than very good +. The sepia-tone illustrations by Gammell are perfect for the subject and the text. CONTENT: He is a buffalo out of Montana. He has humped shoulders and slits for eyes. . . . Just remember, old blossom eater, you can stare down the wind. This old rodeo ain't everything. Alice Yazzie is eleven, going on twelve, and with each month that passes she is beginning to see, beginning to feel. In January, she carries the smallest lamb into the hogan, because "He's all new and starry. He's too new to be cold." In July, she walks to market. "Six miles for cupcakes and strawberry pop!" In… Read More

Scholastic, 2000. 1st Paperback Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Shonto Begay. CONDITION: NEW 2000 Scholastic paperback, 1st paperback edition, 2nd printing. Beautiful color illustrations by Shonto Begay using Southwestern hues. CONTENT: Much more than a pourquoi tale, this story also concerns the rejection of obsession, even in the service of beauty, and recalls the Greek myth of Arachne. When Wandering Girl learns from Spider Woman how to make blankets from her sheep's wool, she is renamed Weaving Woman. She marries and spends a winter at her loom. In the spring, she discovers how to make dyes and is inspired to "create the most beautiful blanket in all of the world." As this goal consumes her, she forgets the Navajo Middle Way; her life loses its balance and her spirit becomes trapped in the blanket. Through a shaman's intervention, Spider Woman returns to pull a loose strand from the border, spoiling its perfection and freeing the weaver's spirit. Since then, the text… Read More

Northland Publishing, 1993. 1st Paperback Edition Assumed 1st. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. Timothy Green. CONDITION: UNREAD 2003 Northland large paperback book, first PB edition, assumed first printing. Beautiful, dream-like color illustrations by the Author. Tiny edge wear to cover corners & almost invisible shelf wear from sliding in and out between other books. The paper used is thicker than most paperbacks and the text is banded in Southwestern turquoise. A class act - AND the story is enchanting. A young Navajo girl goes on a magical night ride upon a silvery steed.

Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1968. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Don Perceval photos and sketches. CONDITION: AS NEW - both DJ and Book. What makes this "AS NEW?" - the book has a signature on the title page which has nothing to do with either the Author nor Illustrator - but is from a named photography business in Ohio. Previous owner. Dust Jacket (in mylar cover) - has several very very small nics top edge and a small strange scratch on the front DJ panel. Hard to see - but there. So, AS NEW. UNREAD 1974 Northland Press hardcover (cloth boards), first edition, third printing. B&W sketches and drawings plus some color art. Don Perceval photos and sketches. CONTENT: Illustrated commentary on the earlier life of Navajo Indians. Includes both black and white sketches, along with full watercolor illustration. The drawings emerged as the product of 35 years of study and experience of the Navajo life. Book originally issued with illustrated dust jacket. Text serves more as… Read More