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NY: THE VIKING PRESS. FIRST PRINTING OF THE 1991 EDITION, FULL NUMBER LINE. CLEAN COPY. . VG. Hardcover. 1991.

New York: Viking. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. 1st Thus; Third Printing. Hardcover. 0670836176 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear with short tears and light chipping, DJ spine lightly faded. Price-clipped. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 645 pages; A legal case kept this book from being released for 8 years. "On a hot June morning in 1975, a desperate shoot-out between FBI agents and Native Americans near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, left an Indian and two federal agents dead. Four members of the American Indian Movement were indicted on murder charges, and one, Leonard Peltier, was convicted and is now serving consecutive life sentences in a federal penitentiary. Behind this violent chain of events lie issues of great complexity and profound historical resonance, brilliantly explicated by Peter Matthiessen in this controversial book. Kept off the shelves for eight years because of one of the most protracted and bitterly fought legal cases in publishing history, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse reveals the Lakota tribe’s long struggle with the U.S. government, and makes clear why the traditional Indian concept of the earth is so important at a time when increasing populations are destroying the precious resources of our world." Leonard Peltier remains in prison after all these years. .

New York. 1991. Viking Press. 1st Printing of This New Edition With A New Epilogue By The Author. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670836176. 645 pages. hardcover. keywords: American Indian Politics. FROM THE PUBLISHER-On a hot June morning in 1975, a fatal shoot-out took place between FBI agents and American Indians on a remote property near Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Four members of the American Indian Movement were indicted on murder charges for the deaths of two federal agents killed that day. Leonard Peltier, the only one to be convicted, is now serving consecutive life sentences in a federal penitentiary. Behind this violent chain of events lie issues of great complexity and profound historical resonance. In this controversial book, Peter Matthiessen brilliantly explicates the larger issues behind the shoot-out, including the Lakota Indians' historical struggle with the U.S. government, from Red Cloud's war and Little Big Horn in the nineteenth century to the shameful discrimination that led to the new Indian wars of 1970s. inventory #15404.

New York: Viking, 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. with revisions, and the afterword by Martin Garbus..

NY: Viking, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Fine. Unexpurgated 1st issue. Cloth & boards. Notes. Index. 628pp. Maps. Upper cover corners bumped with small exposure of board at top corner. Good+ thus in dj.

Book is straight with strong binding and clean text. Dust jacket shows light wear to corners and edges. First Edition. First Print 1991.

New York, NY: Viking, 1991. First Edition, 3rd Impression, 1964 . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/NEW & Bright. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF; under mylar. Light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to text blocks. Documentary of the 1975 shoot-out between Native-Americans & the FBI on the Pine Ridge Reservation, near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, which took the lives of 2 FBI agents. First published 1983, due to legal challenges, the book was suspended until 1991. This edition carries an Epilogue recounting the legal issues & an Afterword from Martin Garbus. Author, novelist & environmental activist Peter Matthiessen (1927 - ), twice recipient of the Nat'l Book Award & long interested in Native American issues, finds faults in the court conclusions. Excerpts of this detailed study of convicted murderer Leonard Peltier (1944 -) of Lakota & Dakota lineage, first appeared in the New York Times. 625 pgs, 20 chapters in 3 Books.

Size: 6x2x9; First printing flat-signed by Russell Means on the dedication page. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Minor wear to bottom of front panel. A few isolated areas of sunning are noted. Very light soiling and wear to text block edges. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket shows sunning to spine, a narrow 1" abrasion to rear panel and some chipping to flap corners, in a mylar cover. 645pp.

Size: 6x2x9; First printing flat-signed by Russell Means on the dedication page. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Minor wear to bottom of front panel. A few isolated areas of sunning are noted. Very light soiling and wear to text block edges. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket shows sunning to spine, a narrow 1" abrasion to rear panel and some chipping to flap corners, in a mylar cover. 645pp.

New York: Viking, 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light spotting on text block edges. first issue,; 9.4 X 6.6 X 2.2 inches; 645 pages.