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NAVAJO TABOOS
by Bulow, Ernie
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0914001027
- ISBN 13
- 9780914001027
- Seller
-
Covina, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Gallup, New Mexico: Buffalo Medicine Books, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ernie Bulow, illustrator Ernest Franklin, and Tony Hillerman, who wrote the foreword, on the title page, with Buffalo Medicine holiday card laid in. Insightful introduction to the superstitions and taboos of traditional Navajo culture, including those associated with snakes, bears, sleep, pregnancy, babies, weaving, hunting, witchcraft, ghosts, etc. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt stamping. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71888
- Title
- NAVAJO TABOOS
- Author
- Bulow, Ernie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0914001027
- ISBN 13
- 9780914001027
- Publisher
- Buffalo Medicine Books
- Place of Publication
- Gallup, New Mexico
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Native Americans, Navajo Indians, American Southwest, Western Americana
Terms of Sale
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
About Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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- Cloth
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- New
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
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- Title Page
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
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