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Long, Haniel. POWER WITHIN US.|THE. Harold Berliner, Nevada City, 1975.
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Description: large 8vo. cloth. 47, (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 750 numbered copies. A fine copy. The story of a handful of Spaniards, which were washed ashore in the Gulf of Mexico in 1528, and traveled across the entire continent, barefoot and naked for eight years led by Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. It was designed by Wolfgang Lederer and printed on Curtis Ray paper in Lutetia types.
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Description: limited edition 750 numbered copies signed by harold berliner on front end paper slight ware to edges of boards some light ware to bottom corner of front end paper 50 pages
Seller: Invicta Books P.B.F.A., Builth Wells, POWYS, United Kingdom
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Description: The format is approximately 6.5 inches by 10 inches. [4], 47, [5] pages. Decoration on front cover. Bookplate of previous owner [the Revd Michael John Staines and his wife Phyllis] inside the front cover. Preface by Henry Miller. Editor's Note. This book was designed by Wolfgang Lederer and printed on Curtis Rag paper in Lutetia types. Haniel Clark Long (March 9, 1888 - October 17, 1956) was an American poet, novelist, publisher and academic. He is best known for his novella, Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca (1936). Haniel Long was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, Long returned to Pittsburgh to teach at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon). He was promoted to head the English Department in 1920, the same year his first book was published, Poems, a collection of his poetry. In 1926 he published a collection of fairy tale-like short stories called Notes for a New Mythology. Long moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1929. He helped founding a publishing organization called Writers' Editions, which concentrated on works by New Mexican authors. The organization published Long's poetry collection, Atlantides, in 1933 and his Pittsburgh Memoranda in 1935. In 1936 Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca appeared, considered Long's best statement of his beliefs on man's place in the world. Long continued to publish other works Walt Whitman and the Springs of Courage, Malinche (Dona Marina), Pinon Country, Children, Students and a Few Adults, French Soldier Home from Being a War Prisoner, The Grist Mill, and A Letter to St. Augustine. This work was previously published privately as "Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca." Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1488/90/92 - after 19 May 1559) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across what is now the US Southwest, he became a trader and faith healer to various Native American tribes before reconnecting with Spanish civilization in Mexico in 1536. After returning to Spain in 1537, he wrote an account, first published in 1542 as La relación y comentarios ("The Account and Commentaries"), which in later editions was retitled Naufragios y comentarios ("Shipwrecks and Commentaries"). Cabeza de Vaca is sometimes considered a proto-anthropologist for his detailed accounts of the many tribes of Native Americans that he encountered. In 1540, Cabeza de Vaca was appointed adelantado of what is now Paraguay, where he was governor and captain general of New Andalusia. He worked to build up the population of Buenos Aires but, charged with poor administration, he was arrested in 1544 and then transported to Spain for trial in 1545. Although his sentence was eventually commuted, he never returned to the Americas. Hardcover, with textured cloth over the board Copy Number 180 of a Limited Edition of 750 copies.
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