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MORNING GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A children's book by this Native American author - the story of a 12 year old girl who lives on an island in what is now the Bahamas in 1492 - at the time of the arrival of Christopher Columbus. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 74 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-2845.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 36635More details Price: $35.00 -
SONS OF THE ADMIRAL: The Story of Diego and Fernando Columbus.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: L. C. Page, 1940. Hardcover first edition - Novel for young adults about the sons of Christopher Columbus. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and black and white drawings by Paul Quinn. 373 pp
Condition: Very good+ in beige linen-weave cloth with rust-brown lettering and illustrations .
Book ID: 43574More details Price: $15.00 -
THE WAR CHIEFS; a Story of the Spanish Conquerors in Santo Domingo.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Dutton, 1904. Hardcover first edition - Adventure story for older boys, set in 1493, the story of a Spanish boy left in the new world when Columbus returned to Spain. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and five plates. 339 pp plus 4 pp of publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good in illustrated brown cloth (missing front endpaper, some rubbing to the lettering on the spine, but a sturdy, tight and clean copy with a very attractive front cover)
Book ID: 69256More details Price: $30.00 -
BAY OF ARROWS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel which juxtaposes events in the life of a professor (obsessed with writing an epic poem about Christopher Columbus, who is - in the nick of time - the recipient of a "genius" grant) and his family, with events in the life of Columbus. After receiving the award, Geno takes his family to a remote part of the Dominican Republic, an inlet called the Bay of Arrows, which was where Columbus first met resistance from the Taino Indians. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-16767.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (a new, unread copy but with a faint remainder line and a binding flaw affecting the upper inner corners of several pages, crease to upper edge back cover of dj).
Book ID: 70289More details Price: $15.00 -
THE DOGS OF PARADISE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Argentinian writer to be published in English. A comic novel with an unusual twist on Columbus's discovery of America, this book won the Romulo Gallegos prize for the best novel written in Spanish over the past 5 years. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. ISBN: 0-689-120915.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 21221More details Price: $25.00
