Pueblo Designs: 176 Illustrations of The “Rain Bird”

Description

Author: Mera, H.P.  (Harry Percival) (1875-1951)

Publisher: Dover

Pub Date: 1973 (Reprint edition)

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  2 copies.  Copy 1 (RB):  Fair.  No marks.  Lower front cover corner has an approx. 1/2″ bend.  Spine has a crack, about mid-spine, shows up on both front and rear covers as a fold and split.  Doesn’t affect binding.   Wear to upper front cover edge and spine head.  Smudging to rear cover.  Copy 2 (SR):  Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Some edge and corner wear to front cover.  Appears unused.

Notes:  Reprint edition.  Originally published in 1938 by the Laboratory for Anthropology, Santa Fe.   Drawings by Tom Lea.  A history of the development of a pottery decoration–the “Rain Bird.”  Pan-Pueblo.