Hanta Yo Inscribed, signed by thr author. Includes copy of first proposed dust jacket with inscription.

Hill, Ruth Beebe

ISBN 10: 0385135548 / ISBN 13: 9780385135542

Published by Doubleday, Garden City, 1979

About this Item

Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. 834 pages. Illustrated end papers. Dust jacket is shelf worn, foxed and chipped. Contents include glossary of "Idiomatic Phrases" - English equivalents of Lakotah terms for geological features, animals, and plants. A machine copy of the first proposed dust jacket with the author in her younger days is laid inside the back cover. The inscription, presumably in the author's hand, states - "You might like to see this copy of the first edition dust jacket. Doubleday changed the jacket, the editor saying I looked too young to have worked 25 years on Hanta Yo. I had worked 18 years on the book at that picture time." The present dust jacket has a picture of the author in her later years on the back. Inscribed and signed by the author on the half title page.

Seller Inventory # 33634

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hanta Yo Inscribed, signed by thr author. Includes copy of first proposed dust jacket with inscription.
• Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385135548
• ISBN 13: 9780385135542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Language
  • Native Americans

About this title

Synopsis

Partially based on fact, this multi-generational saga follows the lives of two Indian families, members of the Mahto band of the Teton Sioux, before the arrival of the white man