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Sale 264: Americana, including Manuscript Material & WWII Aviation (#264) 05/29/2003 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 05/29/2003 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #63 Zuñi Folk Tales

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Estimate: $400 - $600

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Title:

Zuñi Folk Tales

Author:

Cushing, Frank Hamilton

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Putnam

Date Published:

1901

Description:

xvii, [1], 474 pp. Introduction by John Wesley Powell. Illustrated with 11 halftone plates from photographs by A.V. Vroman & Jack Hilliers; photogravure frontispiece portrait of Cushing. 9x6¼, original cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

Cushing recorded and translated these folk tales. Formerly in the St. Matthew's School Reading Club, with their bookplate, and rubberstamps on free endpapers and over the text of p.184 and 283. Provenance: From the Library of William Augustus Brewer.

Condition:

Some cover wear, rubbing to extremities; ink name to front endpaper, small stain to top margins of first several pages, a bit shaken, else very good.

Item#:

130710
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