INDIAN LOVE LETTERS: A Hopi Idyll [SOLD]

INDIAN LOVE LETTERS: A Hopi Idyll by Marah Ellis Ryan

Published by A. C. McClurg & Co. Chicago, 1907

Re-published edition by The Rio Grande Press, Glorieta, 1973

Hardback, first printing. 122 pages, illustrated with drawings and photographs of Hopi villages.

From the Publisher’s Preface

“Once in awhile [sic], in our reprint enterprise, we come across a book that is as unusual in content as it is rare in its numbers.  This book, first published in 1907, was such a book.  It is fiction, but the author wrote of the Hopi Indian faith, tradition and environment with such skill that the words are in truth, truth.  This is a book of prose so delicately written, with such exquisite charm, that in the telling of the story the prose becomes very nearly poetry.  It is a lyrical, graceful story—a bit melancholy, perhaps, but hauntingly lovely.  One could not find a tale like this in the output of contemporary publishers.”

Condition: excellent condition