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New York: J.J. Augustin Publisher. CLEAN Very Good+ 1939 Limited Edition half leather hardcover. . Very Good+. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 1939.

New York: Augstin, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 35 x 27 cm. Folio. xci 83pp main text. Illustrated with frontispiece, 24 color silk screen plates, 9 figures, 1 etching by H. F. Kraus. Images from the John Frederick Huckel Collections. Limited to 500 copies. 1/2 Brown morocco spine, brown boards gilt-stamped. Soiling to the head and tail of spine. Some fading to the cloth. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Lacking slipcase. Internally nice.

J. J. Augustin, 1/1/1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Limited edition of 500 copies. xvi, 83 pages, color frontispiece, illustrations, 24 color and 24 black and white plates, color frontispiece. (25 Pochoir images). Lacking slipcase. Modern brown leather reback over original boards. Printed on imported handmade Japanese paper. Library perforated stamp on title page and last text leaf, ink stamp at foot of dedication page, plates free of library markings. Wear to edges of original boards. Offsetting to plates. Images from the John Frederick Huckel Collections. Explanations of the rites and legends associated with the Bead Chant and several aspects of the Shooting Chant, and an overview of Navajo religion. The author, Gladys Amanda Reichard was a cultural anthropologist and student of Franz Boas at Columbia. Reichard spent years on the Miguelto / Red Point Navajo reservation living with with the people, learning the language, weaving and about Navajo religion.

New York: J. J. Augustin, 1939. 1st. Half leather. First Edition. 4to. xvi, 83 pp. Frontispiece, 24 color silk-screen printed plates, portrait etching of the artist Miguelito by H. F. Kraus, numerous text illustrations. Half brown morocco over brown cloth boards, gilt design to front cover; housed in uncommon publisher's slipcase with printed labels to front cover & spine. Minor wear to extremities; slight darkening to spine; faint circular mark to front board else near fine. Slipcase is somewhat worn. The striking plates are printed on imported handmade Japanese paper and depict detailed reproductions of the sandpaintings by Miguelito. These sandpaintings accompany his chants, including Bead Chant and Shooting Chant, two of the most important Navajo rites. Also includes a thorough description and explanation of these rites and the legends associated with them.

New York: J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Folio. 83, [48]pp. Illustrated with color plates, printed on imported handmade Japanese paper. Near fine with some light wear to the spine in an original, very good cardboard slipcase with some foxing and age-toning. Images from the John Frederick Huckel Collections. One of 500 copies. Very scarce in slipcase.