Pieces of White Shell

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. Clifford Brycelea. SIGNED. 162pp. Small octavo [21 cm] 1/2 beige cloth with sea green paper covered boards and a blue metallic ink stamped title on the spine. The covers are ever so slightly cocked. In a dust jacket, with mild rubbing to the edges. Illustrations by Clifford Brycelea. A first edition of an early work by Terry Tempest Williams. Signed by Terry Tempest Williams on the title page. From the dust jacket- "Legend and ritual are the stories by which the Navajo have lived, by which they have understood their place in the universe. Pieces of White Shell illumines these stories and, using them as a point of departure, shows us how we can find our own- our history, our traditions, our sense of how to live well. It is in this way that we may retain our integrity in a world that is ever-changing.