The Wishing Bone Cycle
New York: Stonehill Publishing, 1976. First Edition, First Printing.
Narrative poems of the Swampy Cree Indians of Canada, translated by Howard Norman. The poems are often funny and full of rich anecdotes. Winner of the 1978 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. Preface by poet Jerome Rothenberg.
This is the hard-cover edition, which is more scarce than the simultaneous issue in paperback. There was also a paperback edition in 1982 by another publisher.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 215 x 145 mm), xi, [1], 180 pages, in red boards, title to spine, in a price-clipped illustrated dust jacket (hard cover).
CONDITION: Spot to front board, light crease to title page, faint spot to top edge, remains of a sticker to front panel of jacket and some soiling. Near Fine in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Item #2953
ISBN: 0883730456
Price: $95.00