Far-Away Desert
by Grace Moon
Illustrated by Carl Moon
Junior Books
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, Garden City, N.Y., 1932. Stated First Edition. Good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, some soiling to cover, sunned spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 8vo, 261 pages, dyed topedge, deckled foredge. Turquoise cloth over boards. Color plate frontispiece; 8 Pen & Ink full-page illustrations and chapter heading artwork. SCARCE Youth Literature, Native Nations setting, American Southwest.
Grace and Carl Moon had frequently collaborated in publishing similarly themed tales. Far-Away Desert is their 10th. Little Pah-Chee and her parents, her Pueblo mother and Navajo father, are visited by her mission teacher. They are told that because she is clever and quick, Pah-Chee should go to a school far away from her desert home. This is strange for her, and the story of what follows is told from Pah-Chee's viewpoint.
Loc: E15
Far-Away Desert
by Grace Moon
Illustrated by Carl Moon
Junior Books
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, Garden City, N.Y., 1932. Stated First Edition. Good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, some soiling to cover, sunned spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 8vo, 261 pages, dyed topedge, deckled foredge. Turquoise cloth over boards. Color plate frontispiece; 8 Pen & Ink full-page illustrations and chapter heading artwork. SCARCE Youth Literature, Native Nations setting, American Southwest.
Grace and Carl Moon had frequently collaborated in publishing similarly themed tales. Far-Away Desert is their 10th. Little Pah-Chee and her parents, her Pueblo mother and Navajo father, are visited by her mission teacher. They are told that because she is clever and quick, Pah-Chee should go to a school far away from her desert home. This is strange for her, and the story of what follows is told from Pah-Chee's viewpoint.
Loc: E15
