Blessingway: With Three Versions of the Myth Recorded and Translated from the Navajo by Father Berard Haile

Wyman, Leland C. Blessingway. University of Arizona Press, 1975. Hardcover. Condition Very Good  No dust jacket. A book with no markings on pages and clean blue boards with silver lettering. This is the original hardcover edition. Much better than the new paper edition by the publisher, that is cheaply made and falls apart just by looking at it.   This volume has been nearly forty years in the making, and is the result of an enormous effort involving many Navajos and non Navajos. The three versions on which the book is based were provided by Slim Curly, Frank Mitchell, and River Junction Curly, and were recorded by Father Berard Haile during the period 1930 to 1932. Father Berard continued to work on the texts until his death in 1961, considering the publication of Blessingway as his most important work on Navajo culture. Father Berard’s unfinished manuscript was turned over to the Special Collections Division of the Library of the University of Arizona, through the enterprise of Berna