The Talking Stone: Being Early American Stories Told Before the White Man's Day on This Continent By the Indians and Eskimos
by Cunningham, Caroline. Illustrated By Richard Floethe
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First edition of this collection of traditional Native American and Inuit stories, illustrated with woodcuts. Bright orange cloth, illustrated dustjacket. Minor edgewear, good hinges, sound text block, a name on each front endpaper, pages otherwise clean and unmarked. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and has considerable rubbing and light chipping to the extremities, light shelf soil, sunned spine, fairly little paper loss.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024722
- Title
- The Talking Stone: Being Early American Stories Told Before the White Man's Day on This Continent By the Indians and Eskimos
- Author
- Cunningham, Caroline. Illustrated By Richard Floethe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FOLKLORE LEGEND SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN INUIT CULTURE STORY-TELLING
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History and Biography; Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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