Pieces of White Shell A Journey to Navajoland
by Williams, Terry Tempest
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0684182327
- ISBN 13
- 9780684182322
- Seller
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Modesto, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1984. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0684182327 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some light edge wear and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. There is a small mostly closed edge tear to the top front edge of the dust jacket as well. This book was awarded the Southwest Book Award for 1984. "Pieces of White Shell is a journey to a largely unknown country, a land of the mind and spirit as well as earth and grass, where people live in intimacy with landscape, where earth, mountains, stars, sky, hold meanings largely unknown to us." .
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- Bookseller
- S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31684
- Title
- Pieces of White Shell A Journey to Navajoland
- Author
- Williams, Terry Tempest
- Illustrator
- Clifford Bryceleas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition; 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0684182327
- ISBN 13
- 9780684182322
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- 0684182327, Native Americans, Terry Tempest Williams, Clifford Bryceleas, Navajo Indians, Navaho Indians, Navaho culture, Stories, Short Stories, Native Americans
- Bookseller catalogs
- NATIVE AMERICANS;
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About the Seller
S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
Biblio member since 2003
Modesto, California
About S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
S. Howlett-West Books was established in 1996, but the owner, Stephanie has been in the book business for over 30 years. Besides her full time work as a book dealer, she writes articles on the subject of Science Fiction for several trade magazines. She is a collector and reader of first edition science fiction in her spare time.
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