Afraid Hawk Emil (5 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Text in English and Sioux, trade paperback, has slight bumps to spine ends and corners with tiny peel to base of spine, slight creases to cover corners, and a touch of curving to first/last corners of text block, some slight edgewear with a .5" tear to top of front cover near spine, and slight rubbing to covers, otherwise a solid VG copy.

Stapled Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A Publication of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. English and Sioux texts side by side. binding is solid. covers are soiled and worn. There is a crease on the back cover. the text pages are clean and unmarked. 97 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Dual mirrored text in English and Sioux. Edited by Beatty. English text by Clark, photographs by Post, Sioux by Emil Afraid of Hawk edited by Kennard. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wrappers. Beautiful and striking photographic cover in color with orange text. Illustrated throughout with striking black and white photographs. Sharp edges and corners, bright text block. Fine except for very mild wear to extremities. 7 x 10 inches. 215 pages.

Condition: Fair. Paperback. Worn cover with tanning/marks/creases/scuffs. Some creases/marks to pages & tears at several edges. Content good. book.

First Edition. First printing of 5,000 copies. Oblong octavo (17cm x 25cm). Stapled, pictorial card wrappers; 84pp; illus. Mild dusting to covers, else Near Fine - a pretty copy. Bilingual reader for Navajo children, based on a traditional Dakota folktale; illustrated by the noted Dakota modernist Oscar Howe. The book is one in a series of elementary readers issued by the United States Indian Service in the 1940s and 1950s. Like the present title, many of these were written by Ann Nolan Clark (1896-1995), who would win a Newberry Medal for her 1953 book Secret of the Andes.