Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
by Neihardt, John G
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0671785524
- ISBN 13
- 9780671785529
- Seller
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Gastonia, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pocket Books, 1972. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Standing Bear. xvi, 238 pp. Slight stress creasing on the spine; the cover edges are lightly rubbed. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.
Synopsis
Black Elk Speaks is a 1932 book which relates the story of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux medicine man, as told by John Neihardt. Black Elk's son, Ben Black Elk, translated Black Elk's words from Lakota into English .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Persephone's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 075840
- Title
- Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
- Author
- Neihardt, John G
- Illustrator
- Standing Bear
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0671785524
- ISBN 13
- 9780671785529
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Pages
- 238
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Spirituality - Native American; Biography Personal Memoirs
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...