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Mankiller: A Chief and her People
by Wilma Mankiller, Michael Wallis
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0312098685
- ISBN 13
- 9780312098681
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1993 St. Martin's Press, New York. 1993. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light shelfwear to tail and board bottom edges. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($22.95); light bumping to head, tail, and tips. Black paper over boards with black cloth overlay on the spine with bright copper lettering on the spine. Maps as endpapers. 292 pp 8vo. The author, the principal chief of the Cherokees, tells her own personal story and the compelling history of her people in this spiritually moving autobiography. Her story is of living in two worlds, the one of the Cherokee, and the other of modern America where she was forced to live when she was ten. In addition to her personal story, she recounts the complex history of the Cherokee Nation, the Trail of Tears, Reconstruction, the Dawes Act, and the Indian boarding schools. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015328
- Title
- Mankiller: A Chief and her People
- Author
- Wilma Mankiller, Michael Wallis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0312098685
- ISBN 13
- 9780312098681
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller, Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah Oklahoma, Trail of Tears, Mankiller Flats Oklahoma, Chief Wilma Mankiller, Alcatraz Island, Indian Activist, Cherokee Land Rush, Oklahoma Indian Territory,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Edges
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Price Clipped
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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