Search Results: dezba woman of the desert by reichard gladys a

J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: J.J. Augustin, 1939. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reichard, Gladys & Lilian (photos). 161pp.; HB tan w/brick; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; clean,tight pgs. " ...an authentic biographical account of a Navajo woman." illus.

J. J. Augustin Publisher. Good+ in Poor dust jacket. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Worn and torn DJ missing large chips at the spine. Graduation gift inscription on half title page with graduation card in envelope on verso of endpaper, facing. Pages browned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 161 pages .

J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($3.00 price intact). Published by J. J. Augustin Publisher, 1939. Octavo. Tan boards stamped in red. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Residue from removed bookplate on half title page. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, edge wear, and tears. Stains to right edge of front panel and left edge of back panel. Book placed in custom acetate protector. 161 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

Glorieta, New Mexico: The Rio Grande Press, Inc., 1973. First Printing Stated . Hard Back. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4. Reichard, Lilian J. - Photography. 161 Pages. Cream boards with blue and red lettering and decorationss. This is a quality reprint of the 1939 release by J.J. Augustin Publisher, New York. Illustrated with 19 black and white photograhs. This book gives a short accont of Navajo behavior and attitudes toward their complex social and religious organization, a picture of daily life and adaptation to notions which have introduced by the United States government. The author's primary purpose was to answer questions asked by laymen, teachers, writers, artists and tourists. The traveler who has wandered off the highway realizes that the desert supports a people attractive and colorful. Yet these brief contacts may leave the impression that they are so reserved as to be stolid, so patient as to be shiftless, so mobile as to be irresponsible, so acquisitive as to be… Read More

NY: J. J. Augustin, 1939. Used - Like New. 1939. First Edition Hardcover. Dec. cloth, no dj. 8vo, 161 pp, frontis and full page b/w plates throughout, map end papers. Photos by Lilian J. Reichard and the author. Lacks dj. Corners are very sharp. Text is very clean and crisp. Fine. (Subject: Americana & Regional History.)

NY: J.J.Augustin. VG-. (1939). 1st ed. Boards sl scuffed, corners sl worn, owner's name fep. About the "pastoral Navajo of the Southwest" .

New York: J.J. Augustin, 1939. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reichard, Gladys & Lilian (photos). 161pp.; HB beige w/brick; slight rub w/sun on spine; some lt.tan w/clean,tight pgs. DJ tan w/blk.-pic.cover; rubbed&sunned w/wear on edges. " ...an authentic biographical account of a Navajo woman." illus.

New York: J. J. Augustin Publisher, 1939 161 pages. A book of the Navajo. Size: 8vo. Illus. by Photographs by Lilian J. Reichard and the Author. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: J. J. Augustin, 1939. Signed and inscribed by the author. Hardcover. Good+/Good. NY: J. J. Augustin, 1939. Signed and inscribed by the author. Numerous b/w photographic plates of Indians. Photography by Lilian J. Reichard and the Author. 161 pp. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Off-white cloth. Cloth at heel of spine frayed; cloth frayed through to boards at two places on bottom edge and corners, otherwise very good in spine-darkened dust wrapper, separated at front hinge. Good+/Good. (Oversized - extra shipping charges apply)

Minimal library distinctions, "Property of the Federal Government, W.P.A. Arizona Statewide Project" stamped 1st Title Page, pocket intact (1 check out), otherwise, appears as near unblemished copy in tan cloth boards displaying minor surface/edge wear, with small tear at head of spine. This was probably an Indian Reservation copy. Publishers information pasted to FLEP, light age foxing.
Illustrated by Lilian J. Reichard & Gladys A. Reichard. The flow of daily life on the Navajo Reservation centered in the activities of the matriarch of the family group, vividly and poetically told by a sympathetic observer of the The People. Though the account is fictionalized to the extent that it does not describe any living person, there is probably more truth here than in many scientific reports.
The story is of Dezba, matron and head of a large Navajo household. Dezba's husband was a Silversmith, they had three children and many grandchildren. Along with Debza's brother, theirs… Read More

New York; (1939): J.J. Augustin Publisher. First Edition. Octavo. 161pp., illustrated with photographs by Lilia J. Reichard and the author, bound in beige pictorial cloth stamped in red, spine lettering red, endpapers are maps, some toning to board edges and spine, very minor bumping to corners in unclipped pictorial dust jacket, small chip to foot, light wear to head and corners. A very nice copy.

New York: J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1939 Signed by both the author and the photographer on the ½ title pg. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. His stamp to the ffep. Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 161 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, ivory, tight, decorative map eps, large photo frontis; a.e. well tanned. Cover: taupe, red artwork front, red titles spine; v lt shelfwear, spine sunned, lt soil overall, sm faint dampstain to front b.e. corner.