The Navaho Door: An Introduction to Navaho Life by Leighton, Alexander H. and Dorothea C. Leighton - 1945

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1945. Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton are two of the many husband-wife teams to have pursued Navaho and other Southwest tribes in Native American Studies, combining findings from ethnology with those of ethnography, since they lived with and traveled with the Navaho, and bringing medical and psychiatric expertise to them. Dedicated to the Native American men soldiers in the American fighting forces. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing moderate wear, sunning, especially to spine joints, but protected by a plastic coat, not price-clipped. Illustrated endpapers front and rear, and some lovely black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Foreword by John Collier, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. xviii + 149 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.