Bird's-Eye View of the Pueblos
by STUBBS, Stanley A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0816508372
- ISBN 13
- 9780816508372
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with silver spine lettering. xviii, 122pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map, floor plans. Very good. Bit of faint binding wear, else internally tight and fine. First edition, tight and attractive, of this well-known study of archaeological explorations, mainly using aerial views, of villages mostly along the Rio Grande -- with relevant autograph addition: Tipped to front pastedown is a First Day Cover bearing one of the four of the 1977 "Pueblo Art" 13-cent stamps that depict hand-thrown pots, boldly signed across the stamp in black fineline by its designer, renowned Native American artist Ford Ruthling (1933-2015). 6½" X 3½, postally cancelled in Santa Fe, New Mexico on 13 April 1977 and with "First Day of Issue" so stamped. Affixed at upper right is the "Acoma" stamp; cachet at left is a color reproduction of a portrait of an Acoma woman by American artist Lyle Tayson (1924-2014), and Tayson signs in black ballpoint at bottom center.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48906
- Title
- Bird's-Eye View of the Pueblos
- Author
- STUBBS, Stanley A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0816508372
- ISBN 13
- 9780816508372
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Place of Publication
- Norman
- Date Published
- 1950
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Native American;
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