VAN VALKENBURGH, Richard F. ADAMS, Lucy Wilcox and MCPHEE, John C. (editors); Charles Keetsie Shirley (maps)

Diné Bikéyah (The Navajo's Country)

Window Rock, AZ: United States Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Navajo Service, 1941. First Edition. Small quarto (26.25cm); mimeographed sheets, printed recto and verso and side-stapled into illustrated wrappers; [vi], 180pp, [20]; illus. Former owner's name in ink to front wrapper, with chipping, thin splits, and short tears to same; thin, vertical paint streak to rear wrapper; text remains fresh and clean; Very Good.

Guide book and gazeteer of the Navajo country and adjacent regions compiled by Richard Fowler Van Valkenburgh, a former Bureau of Indian Affairs worker and long-time archeological assistant with the L.A. County Museum of History, Art and Science. Contains a 4pp key to the Navajo alphabet (palatalization and labialization), an extensive list of Navajo place names, providing detailed information regarding their origins, history, and significance. Illustrated throughout with maps drawn by Charles Keetsie Shirley. Scarce in commerce.

Price: $750.00

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