The Ten Grandmothers
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, [2], 3-306 pp. Bound in textured bright blue cloth with gold lettering and decorative horizontal bars in gilt on the spine; yellow topstain. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Full page map, chronology, and bibliography. Volume 26 in The Civilization of the American Indian series. The author, an ethnologist, developed this account of the Kiowa based on their oral traditions, as provided to her by the tribal elders during her two summers of residence among the Kiowa. An attractive copy of the first edition, uncommon thus. Very near Fine / very near Fine. Item #000010491
A very near Fine book with some toning to the endpapers and pastedowns in Very Good moderately edge-worn dust jacket.
Price: $100.00