HOHOKAM. by Shelton, Richard.

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HOHOKAM.

Edition: First printing - a limited, signed edition.

Tucson, Arizona: SUN / Gemini Press, 1986. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A long narrative poem on the vanished Southwestern people we call the Hohokam. Includes an afterword by Shelton on the little we know of the history of the Hohokam, a prehistoric people who lived in South Central Arizona for at least 1500 years, before their civilization abruptly collapsed around 1450 A.D. One of 75 copies SIGNED by the poet (this copy is also signed on the colophon page by the photographer Steven Trubitt.) . A handsome production designed by Clint Colby and Charles Alexander, handset and printed by Alexander at Chax Press on Mowhawk superfine ivory paper, Illustrated with plates made from photographs by Trubitt of Hohokam pottery sherds found at Snaketown, Arizona (dating from 700-1000 A.D.) and with a silhouette of Shelton by Rebecca Gaver. Unpaginated. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-933313047.

Condition: Fine in brown cloth with an ivory spine label in the original acetate wrapper.

Book ID: 38387
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