Nov 03, 2011 - Sale 2259

Sale 2259 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
ZITKALA-SA (GERTRUDE BONNIN). American Indian Stories. Signed and Inscribed, "To my friend, / Mrs. Arthur Jeffery Parsons / With love / Zitkala-Sa / XMas 1921," below the frontispiece portrait. 8vo, printed wrappers, front cover detached with first leaf, spine ends chipped; rear hinge cracked. Washington: Hayworth, 1921; inscription: 1921

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Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938) was a Sioux author and activist who supported Native American causes throughout her life; some claimed, falsely, that she was the granddaughter of Sitting Bull.