Touching the Fire: Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, and Other Tales
by Welsch, Roger
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679408878
- ISBN 13
- 9780679408871
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Villard Books/Random House, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. An anthology of stories from tribal history and tradition, stories about the lives of men and women with names --Silver Mapateet, LaVoi Antler, Ghost Elk. It is a fictional archaeology of a tribe's traditions. Binding of burgundy cloth over spine with tan speckled boards, blind-stamp of Indian design on front, gilt lettering on spine. Clean and unmarked, tight and solid volume. Jacket designed by Morris Taub; the buffalo shield by Prairie Edge, the painted deer hide by Nona Aquan, with the jacket photo by Michael Britto. 270 pages. 8.6 x 5.75 inches. 1992, Villard Books/Random House, New York, New York, USA
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003693
- Title
- Touching the Fire: Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, and Other Tales
- Author
- Welsch, Roger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679408878
- ISBN 13
- 9780679408871
- Publisher
- Villard Books/Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA NATIVE AMERICANS INDIAN HISTORY CULTURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Native Americans;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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