The Land of Little Rain, A Story of Hopi Indian Children
New York: The Junior Literary Guild & The John C. Winston Company, 1936/1936; foreword by the Head of Dept of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania; blue reinforced cloth binding with red-orange and black zigzags, red-orange titles on spine, yellow endpapers with kachinas, over 20 coloured illustrations, also b/w illustrations and small illustrations in text, large 8vo; 121 pp. glossary. Juvenile hardback.
Muriel H. Fellows (1902-1984) her doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania (Petrographs of the New World) in 1936 and began to write books for children on the subjects she knew well. This book though a little stilted, is kindly and full of information, with many appealing and accurate illustrations.
CONDITION: Good without jacket; name and light ink spatter on front endpaper; bottom extremities quite bumped and worn, affecting author's name, dark edge soil pp. 114-115, other light margin soil, unwrinkled pages, including plates. Item #14925
Price: $16.00