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Bay Is the Land (To Black Elk)
by DE LA TORRIENTE, Donna Duesel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0878811028
- ISBN 13
- 9780878811021
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Reseda, CA: Mojave Books, 1982. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 151pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket rather edgeworn; rear endpaper a bit age toned. A tight, attractive first edition of this poetry collection about Native Americans, boldly signed and inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: "2/29/84 / To Lilly Tolpo, / with very special regards, / Donna Duesel de la Torriente," with her personal business card affixed beneath. (Lily Tolpo, 1917-2016, is a part Native American sculptor and wife of noted sculptor/painter Carl Tolpo, 1901-76). Tipped to the front pastedown is an 8½" X 11" single sheet typed press release, at the bottom of which de la Torriente pens a couple of lines. Laid in loose is a leaflet for this book and a second typed biographical sheet about her.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38604
- Title
- Bay Is the Land (To Black Elk)
- Author
- DE LA TORRIENTE, Donna Duesel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0878811028
- ISBN 13
- 9780878811021
- Publisher
- Mojave Books
- Place of Publication
- Reseda, CA
- Date Published
- 1982
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Poetry; Native American;
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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