The Indian in American Literature
New York: Oxford University Press, 1933. 1st edition hardcover, prev. owner's name onffep, else vg in sl. worn dj.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1933. 1st edition hardcover, prev. owner's name onffep, else vg in sl. worn dj.
Austin: Encino Press, 1965. Limited ed. hardcover, 1/550, prev owners name on half title page, else fine in matching paper slipcase.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1860. First English edition (first published in German in 1859). xii, 428pp, illus. Bound in half leather and marbled boards. Light rubbing to externals, else very good. Johann Kohl was an educated, urbane, and well-trained German geographer, ethnologist, and popular writer. He visited the Lake Superior.....
Menasha: American Anthropological Association, 1935. 235pp, illus, 2 folding maps. Printed wrappers, rebound in cloth. Edge wear, corner of front wrap chipped as are first few pages, but no loss of text. Interior clean. The Walapai are a Colorado River tribe in northwest Arizona. This scarce volume contains reports from.....
Washington, D.C. U.S. National Museum, 1904. [ii], 171, 548pp, 248 plates. Removed from the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1902 and rebound in utilitarian cloth boards. The complete report with all plates present. A classic of Native American craft work. There is special emphasis on the differences in.....
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. 219pp. Limited edition, #158/375, signed, deckle edged, some pages uncut, previous owner's nameplate, else very good hardcover without dust jacket.
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1877. Recased with original cloth boards showing usual wear, spine strip retained with loss at end of title, else interior is clean and very good. Issued as Miscellaneous Publications No. 7 of the US Geological and Geographical Survey, Matthews was the then Assistant Surgeon for.....
Santa Fe: Morning Star Gallery, 1987. Illus., near fine hardcover in worn dust jacket. Reproductions of fifty ledgerbook drawings with historical annotations.
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1975. xvii, 142pp, illus. Small nick from the front panel of the dj, else near fine. Documents a collection of fine, handcrafted baskets made by tribal people living in the far westernmost portion of the Grand Canyon.
Santa Fe: Laboratory of Anthropology, 1937. [iv], 113pp, 48 plates. Original printed stiff paper covers. Slight soil and minor corner bumps, else clean and very good. A detailed examination of the "rain bird" motif, one of the basic designs in pottery decoration throughout the southwest, and how it has gone.....
Santa Fe: Laboratory of Anthropology, 1943. First edition. (vi), 73pp, illus. Original printed wrappers. Slight soil and rubbing, else near fine. A study of the style and techniques of one of the least known of the southwestern Indian arts. The twenty six plates include some color...
NY: The Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., nd (ca.1945). 128pp. 12mo. Original cloth. Externally worn with pencil notes throughout. The extended title continues, "A handbook for beginners in the study of the Navajo language." The original owner (with an address at a trading post.....
Glorieta, NM: Rio Grande Press, 1973, [xxii], 641-1136pp, illus, map ep. Original printed leatherette covered boards issued without a dust jacket. Cloth on spine somewhat wrinkled, else near fine. Facsimile reprint of Part Two of the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, originally published by the Government Printing.....
Santa Fe, NM: The Rydal Press, 1940. Numbered and inscribed. 79pp, 14 b/w illus, double page hand colored reproduction of a sand painting. Slight edgewear to the dust jacket with a couple of minor chips, internally clean. A splendid, near fine copy of a scarce book scarcer still thus. Franc.....
np: JAFL, 1918. Pamphlet reprinted from Journal of American Folk-Lore, unopened w/o covers.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1962/1967. Two volumes. xvi, 299pp, illus; vi, 227pp, illus. Parsons volume near fine in like dj, Goldfrank volume issued without dj, lightly rubbed, else near fine. In the late 1930's an anonymous informant from Isleta provided Parsons with over 100 watercolors of Pueblo ceremony and life shown.....
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1954. xii, 164pp, illus. Edgewear to dj with minor loss, else clean and very good. A scarce book on what the author calls a "vanishing art."
New York: 1976. 1st edition hardcover, previous owner's inscrip. on ffep, else vg in very good dj.
Albuquerque, NM: UNM Press, 1982. 1st edition. xviii, 258pp, illus. Near fine book in a dust jacket with slight soil and edgewear. Inscribed by the author. Sando - himself a Jemez Indian - interprets the history, traditions, and lifeways of his people. A scarce title...
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. xx, 293pp, illus. Slight wear to extremities, previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, slight wear to extremities, internally clean and very good. A personal account from the author's observations and from available published sources. The Snake Dance at Walpi, problems of overland travel, administrative.....
Albany, NY: Erastus H. Pease & Co., 1847. xiv, 498pp, illus 12 advts. Rebound in green cloth, ownership insc on ffep, else good. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) was an author, ethnologist, and Indian agent. He began his career in the federal Indian service in 1822 as the first Indian agent.....
NY: Excelsior Catholic Publishing House, 1855. Later printing. 514, 4pp, 3 engraved portraits plus engraved frontis. Slight edge wear, gilt title on spine and front board bright, internally clean save for a private library stamp on the title page, a near fine copy. A history of the missions with much.....
Santa Ana, CA: Fine Arts press, 1936. 16pp, 50 plates (complete). Small folio in a slipcase. Each plate in this splendid set of Indian design motifs illustrates an aspect or feature typical of Pueblo style (there are a couple of Navajo images), and 41 are printed in color. On the.....
NY: Heye Foundation, 1921. 216pp, illus, 2 folding maps. Boards faded, previous owner bookplate on front pastedown, signs of sticker removal on ffep, interir otherwise clean and very good. Part of the Indian Notes and Monographs, a Series of Publications relating to the American Aborigines, edited by F.W. Hodge. The.....
NY: Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Inc., 1933. Hardcover in printed boards lightly soiled and evidence of water mark on boards but no damage to interior of book, else very good.