Oscar Howe Illus (1 results)

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.…