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Indian Blankets and Their Makers
by James, George Wharton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Tudor Publishing Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1937. Hardcover. The 1937 reprint of the 1914 first edition, in its very scarce original box and dust jacket. Mylared dust jacket has chips, a half inch tear, and clipped corners. Red cloth boards with gilt and green imprint. Spine is shaken. Top edge red, other edges with some soil spots. Endpapers have shadow toning, and a few pages have light soil. The box is in good condition with some wear and light soil, with a pastedown front lid matching the cover. With sixty-four illustrations and thirty-two color plates. A well-illustrated classic on Navajo weaving from writer and photographer George Wharton James. ; 10 1/4" x 7 3/4"; 213 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010790
- Title
- Indian Blankets and Their Makers
- Author
- James, George Wharton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Tudor Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Navajo Blankets
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Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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....
- Edges
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