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The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull
by UTLEY, Robert M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0805012745
- ISBN 13
- 9780805012743
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0805012745 . A first printing of Robert Utley's biography of the Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull (c.1834-1890). Sitting Bull led his tribesmen in defiance of U.S. Government forces for 25 years in the northern high plains of the U.S. and Canada. With two sections of plates bearing black & white photos & drawings of people and scenes described in the book. Also with numerous maps. --- In orange paper-covered boards backed in brown cloth, with copper foil spine titling. Volume wrapped in dust jacket with painted portrait of Sitting Bull to front panel. --- With inked gift inscription to half title page and a little dulling to spine titling, else a sound, tightly-bound, unmarked copy. Unpriced, unclipped jacket with small tears & chips along edges, otherwise intact, bright and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xvii, 413 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88344
- Title
- The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull
- Author
- UTLEY, Robert M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0805012745
- ISBN 13
- 9780805012743
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- 0805012745
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Bluebird Books
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About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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