Item #140943153 Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Ogalala Sioux. John G. Neihardt, Standing Bear, Illustrations.
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Ogalala Sioux
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Ogalala Sioux
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Ogalala Sioux
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Ogalala Sioux
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Ogalala Sioux

Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Ogalala Sioux

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1932.

First edition, first printing. Signed by John G. Neihardt and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original crimson cloth with bronze stamping; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Uneven sunning to cloth at spine and edges, front inner hinge is exposed with webbing visible and a little fragile. Pages lightly toned, with bottom corners lightly bumped throughout. An inspirational classic of Native American literature, a series of interviews with a Lakota holy man named Black Elk who had survived the Battle of Little Big Horn and the Wounded Knee Massacre. Item #140943153

Price: $7,500.00

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