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1932 · réf. 54966 — Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company 1932. Near fine in very good jacket. First edition in the rare original dust jacket chronicling the adventures of a Native girl in the southwest. Grace and Carl Moon both white wrote and illustrated a number of picture books about Native Americans particularly about the Pueblo and Navajo peoples. Carl Moon was also a noted photographer of Native Americans and was commissioned by the Fred Harvey Company in 1907 to photographically document the Native communities of the southwest. Original cloth-backed color pictorial paper boards. In original unclipped $2.00 color pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white illustrated endpapers. Illustrated in color by Carl Moon. 59 1 pages. Page numbers added in pencil to top corners. Jacket with short closed tear to front panel rubbing to front joint and a few other spots. Leaves a bit toned at margins. Firm and bright. Doubleday, Doran & Company unknown books