First Edition Book Spin a Silver Dollar hotsell 1945 2nd US Printing Nov 1945 Edition Alberta Hannum Illustrated by Beatien Yazz Navajo

First Edition Book Spin a Silver Dollar 1945 2nd US Printing Nov 1945 Edition Alberta Hannum Illustrated by Beatien Yazz Navajo

Publisher: Viking Press, NY

This book is not only a collaboration between Alberta Hannum and Navajo painter Beatien Yazz, but a
biography of the life of this talented and fortunate Navajo boy! Little No-Shirt (Beatien Yazz) (illustrator)

Cloth. Condition: About Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 10th printing. Hard cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall in blue cloth w/black horse dex., black spine medallion w/gold titles. About Fine book in Very Good

The story is set on the Navajo Reservation in Northern Arizona where the Lippincotts, husband and wife have come to run a Trading Post. The full hotsell color lithograph reproduction of his paintings reproduced in this book are more than worth the price of the book to most viewers. Book has light toning to the page edges only.

Spin a Silver Dollar: The True Story of an Artist, the Navajo People, and a Way of Life (Wide Ruins, Arizona)


Great reading, all ages!