Blessingway: with the Three Versions of the Myth Recorded and Translated from the Navajo by Father Berard Haile, O.F.M.

Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1970. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xxviii,[2],3-660pp; photographic frontispiece portrait, with black-and-white halftones and illustrations throughout. This copy from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Modest soil to covers, with light rubbing to board edges, and pencilled note to upper front endpaper; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Laurie Cook, unclipped (priced $19.50), spine-tanned, with modest shelf-soil and -wear, and 1" tear to lower rear flap fold; Very Good. Text includes three verisons of Blessingway, as told by Slim Curly, Frank Mitchell, and River Junction Curly, with information on its mythology and illustrations. [86876].