NY, Fleming H. Revell, (1940). A collection of inspirational, nature-centered tales adapted from Cherokee legends, by a writer of Cherokee descent. Rider was the daughter of Thomas Rider, aka Domgeske Unkalunt, a member of the Oklahoma legislature and part of a large Cherokee family. She was a singer, musician and artist as well as a writer, and an important advocate and promoter of Native American culture. She founded the First Sons and Daughters of America, and also performed in an opera based on Indian themes, and which was created for her. Much of this book recounts tribal tales, including many that deal with the origins of particular flowers and plants, and she recounts the tales with a poetic sensibility rather than in a strictly historical manner. Illustrated with numerous full-page drawings by Rider and warmly inscribed by the author and signed "Atalie Unkalunt." Interestingly, the recipient was Alice Stickney Kafka, a woman related by marriage to the writer Franz Kafka (her father-in-law was the brother of Franz's father). A fine copy in a good, edge-chipped dust jacket with a vertical crease to the spine. An uncommon book in dust jacket, and especially scarce in jacket and signed. [#025322] SOLD