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Light of the Feather; Pathways Through Contemporary Indian America
by Mick Fedullo
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0688115594
- ISBN 13
- 9780688115593
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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NZ$13.26NZ$9.28
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About This Item
New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, 1992 William Morrow and Company, New York. 1992. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight shelfwear to board edges; several light splash spots on textblock fore edge. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($22.00), light sun fading to spine. Orange boards with red cloth overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 256 pp 8vo. The author was sent to the Pima Reservation in Arizona on a one-year writer-in- residence which became five years and new-found calling for Indian education. This the story of how one white man crossed the cultural divide and found old and new values, the determination of the human spirit, and ultimately, himself. The author brings the reader into the heart of the Indian world and tells how a balance is sometimes attained between the two worlds of the whites and the tribes. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011436
- Title
- Light of the Feather; Pathways Through Contemporary Indian America
- Author
- Mick Fedullo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0688115594
- ISBN 13
- 9780688115593
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Pima Indians, assimilation, Reservation schools, Indian boarding schools, Indian education, Indian reservations, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Apache Indians, Crow Indians, Navajo children,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
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- Brodart
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- Fore Edge
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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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