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Decorative Art of the Southwestern Indians
by Sides, Dorothy Smith
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Santa Ana, California: Fine Arts Press. Good. 1936. First Edition. Collection of hand-colored plates housed in a quarter leather portfolio. Issued with 50 plates, this copy has 51 plates (plate 36 is in duplicate). Plates are unbound, as issued, and measure 9 ¾ x 12 ½. Title pages has moderate soiling from the portfolio and moderate creasing to corners. Plates have light soiling and a few have creasing near the edges. Portfolio has heavy wear; the leather strap is frayed, the spine is cracked and has moderate soiling, and most edges are cracked but have been repaired by the previous owner with clear tape. Overall good condition. The hand-colored plates in this publication depict designs on pottery, basketry and other artifacts of southwestern Native peoples. The plates were drawn by Dorothy Smith Sides, the annotations on verso of each plate were written by Mrs. Frederick Robinson Smith (Clarice Martin Smith) and the forward was written by Frederick Webb Hodge. A beautiful selection of designs. .
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- Back of Beyond Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024818
- Title
- Decorative Art of the Southwestern Indians
- Author
- Sides, Dorothy Smith
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Fine Arts Press
- Place of Publication
- Santa Ana, California
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Art, Native Americana, Designs, Pottery, Basketry, Plates, Hand-colored, New Mexico, Arizona
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About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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