Wheelwright mary c (13 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Line drawings by Lloyd Moylan. Kraus reprint, New York 1968, of the original from 1956. 100 pages + plates. Cloth. Ex library in excellent condition.[#123916].

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Slim 12mo. 13 [1 pronunciation guide] pp. Stapled wrappers with yapped foredges and cover with deckled foredge. Wrappers with light wear, staples a bit oxidized, near fine. Published as Bulletin Number 1.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Very Good in a Good jacket. 1st Printing. Gift of Margaret and Barry Goldwater bookplate on the front pastedown. 186pp 4to.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Très bon état. In-16 15 x 14 cm. Reliure éditeur pleine toile noire des ateliers Mellottée, à Limoges, premier plat sous un relief de sable réalisé dans l'atelier de Jacques Le Roux, à Cornillon, selon la maquette d'Odette Ducarre, 217 pp., note du traducteur. Exemplaire en très bon état. édition originale limitée à 3000 exemplaires.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. 186pp. Quarto [26 cm] Green cloth with silver lettering on the spine and front board. Head of boards a bit sunned, and foot of boards mildly rubbed. Bookseller's ticket affixed to the title page. The jacket is faded at the spine. There are a few subtle scratches to the panels, and several closed tears. Volume three of the Navajo Religion Series. Rewritten by Mary C. Wheelwright. Includes 13 serigraph color plates by Louie Ewing, after sand paintings recorded by Franc J. Newcomb, Mrs. John Wetherell and Mrs. Laura A. Armer.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover in Very Good condition, 4to; Green cloth, silver stamped lettering, 23 color plates of kehtahns and sand paintings, glossary, index; Spine and board edges sun-faded, prior owner name on front free end-paper. Bookseller accession no.: 15088. Navajo Religion Series, Vol.II. This large volume might require additional postage. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. Very Good +. First edition. 237pp. Quarto [26cm]. Bound in teal cloth, with title stamped in silver ink on spine and front board. Foot of spine gently bumped and bottom edge of front board very subtly faded. In a plain green dust jacket with silver ink stamped titles. The jacket shows only minor wear- a bit of light creasing to the top edge, and negligible fading along the bottom edge of the front panel. A superior copy. With 24 stunning, multi-color serigraphs inspired by Navajo sand painting. Mary C. Wheelwright was a wealthy, native Bostonian who felt a deep connection to the American Southwest. She relocated to New Mexico in midlife. In addition to authoring multiple anthropological works, she also established the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Navajo Religion Series Volume II. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy.

5 disk set of 10-inch 78 speed phonograph records housed in an oblong 4to book, with each LP housed in a brown manilla sleeve. Teal cloth covered boards with titles in black, title to spine, bumped at corners but very good. [with:] Texts of the Navajo Creation Chants. 4to booklet. Screen printed pictorial card wrappers, staple bound at spine, illustrations to text. Slightly browned at extremities else very good. [40]pp. Boston, Peabody Museum of Harvard University, "All Navajo Ceremonies are chanted for the healing of sickness of mind or body. These records are selected from the collection, belonging to the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art of Santa Fe, New Mexico, most of which consist of chants sung on the reservation by Navajo medicine men years ago and recorded by Dr. George Herzog, Dr. Harry Hoijer, and Father Berard Haile" (Introduction).  The booklet also includes translations of the lyrics of these chants, not limited to those represented on the recordings "because I desired to give enough to show the unity and beauty of the Navajo chants as literature. This beauty, however, is not the result of a self-conscious esthetic tradition. The songs are essentially magical. They frequently repeat four times in order to strengthen the force of the prayer and are directed to the East, South, West, and North, calling help from the sources of power" (ibid). The booklet also reproduces the pictographs used by the vocalist, Son of Bead Chant Singer, as a mnemonic system for the words.   The complete set of records and the booklet are rarely found together.…