The Navajo Blanket
New York: Praeger/Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973. Hard Cover. 112p.. An essential reference on the Navajo blanket seldom seen in hardcover. some fading to spine Second printing. More
New York: Praeger/Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973. Hard Cover. 112p.. An essential reference on the Navajo blanket seldom seen in hardcover. some fading to spine Second printing. More
Princeon, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969. Folio. Issued as the first in a series of classics including Gladys Reichard's Navajo Religion, Mircea Eliade's The Myth of the Eternal Return, and others destined to be classics of the spiritual aspects of the Navajo view of the sacred. The artist Maud Oakes..... More
Chinile, Arizona: 1983. Quarto. The story of Navajo Fortress Rock is a true story. It tells of the heroic stand at Fortress Rock made by a group of Navajos. The Navajo leaders in charge of more than three-hundred people who spent the winter of 1863 and 1864 at Navajo Fortress..... More
Santa Fe, New Mexico, (1980): Sunstone Press. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 500 copies. The present copy is number 311 signed by the author Phillips Kloss and etcher Gene Kloss. Also inscribed on the front free endpaper "For Audrey and Larry Ferguson" (most likely by the author). 105p. Illustrated with..... More
Albuquerque: New Mexico University Press. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 289p. index. notes. bibliography. The two most important figures in the Apache Wars between 1976 and 1886. A detailed account written and including photographs of the major participants. Some very light fading to spine else..... More
Berkeley; (1976): University of California Press. First Edition. Octavo. 488pp., with a foreword by Theodora Kroeber and a biographical introduction by Timothy H.H. Thoresen, Folkloristic Commentary by Alan Dundes and Editor's preface by Grace Buzalkijko. Between 1901 and 1907 the author, then a young professor at the university of Berkely..... More
New York: Columbia University Press (printed By J J Augustin), 1938. Japanese Sewn Paper. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, 247p. owner's signature (Dr. [Henrietta?] Faxon, December 30, 1938). Old faded price stamp on foot of book. Printed by J J Augustin in Germany. The work is the..... More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1959. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 618pp. A classic study of Indian life in transition, recording the myriad details for a tribe of 400 individuals. Views of the political, agricultural, non-agricultural, social, and ceremonial co-ordinances in tribal life cycles..... More
San Franciso; (1994): Pomegranate Art Books. First Edition. Small Quarto. 79 pages. Inscribed by Ursula Le Guin to Philomena (Guillebaud) "with Christmas cheer" and signed by Susan Seddon Boulet, the illustrator, whose paintings deal with primitive man and creatures often with a Native American sensitivity. A beautiful work and Karla..... More
Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1990. Review Copy. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 266pp. Thirty four Native American poets from the northwest. A review copy, with review letter laid in. Bound in red cloth boards, with illustrated dust jacket. Signed by James Welch at his..... More
New York; (1930): John Day Plenty Coups Indians. First Edition. Octavo. 313 pages. Inscribed "To /E. Howard Atchley/, Like this old 'Injun' if/ you can, /Frank B. Linderman /1930. Illustrated by H.M. Stoops. While the vast majority of Americans had regarded Indians as savages, Frank Linderman of Montana promoted positive..... More
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, 1909. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. 136pp. Illustrated text. Numerous B&W photographic plates. Bound in green cloth, with gold lettering on spine and front panel. The interior is clean and tight; Outer cloth panels have rubbing at spine, and the corners are lightly bumped. Book..... More
Flagstaff, AZ. (1966): Northand Press. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 250 copies signed by Dudley Gordon jwho wrote the foreword and Don Perceval who did the illustrations. The present copy is number 167. General Crrok had thrity three years of successful Civil War and Indian campaigns. He pursued the Apaches..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First Illustrated Edition. Octavo. 310 pages. The author's appreciation for the people with whom he lived with was reviewed as disgusting by many of the original readers in 1893 but the illustrations help to see the point though the penitente ceremoniest of the crucifixion..... More
New York; (1910): The Century Co. Octavo. This book was issued some years ago under the title "The Man Who Married the Moon." The publication of the present edition, enlarged by the addition of new material, is made the occasion of changing the title to one which more accurately describes..... More
New York; (1983): The Viking Press. First Edition. Octavo. Signed by the author on the half-title.628 pages, index. Peter Matthiessen describes the case he treats in this book as ''one of the most complex and interesting trials of our time.'' That may possibly be true. Elsewhere, he compares it to..... More
Dartmouth College Publications, 1932. First Ediiton. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 327 pp. Seven in-text plates. Uncut. Dartmouth College Manuscript Series No. 1. Spien titles somewhat faded, otherwise clean cover, text. More
Norman, OK; (1961): University of Oklahoma Press. First Edition. Small Quarto. 270pp. 100 plates (8 in full color). Includes checklist of works, chronology, and sources. Bound in light brown cloth, spine lettering gilt and dark brown, light rubbing to spine ends and corners. A very good copy in unclipped pictorial..... More
Navajo Reservation, Arizona: Office of Navajo Economic Opportunity, 1968. First Edition. Soft Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 104pp. Collated addresses by Peter McDonald, convicted Executive Director of federal corruption charges. Suite of b&w photographs. Laid in folding map. In black lettered pale blue wraps. Some ink underlining..... More
Oregon: Burns Paiute Indian Colony, 1973. Orginal Wraps. Limited. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 42 pp. More
Chicago: John Calhoun Club, 1930. Limited Edition. Octavo. 30 pages. No. 18 of a limited edition of 160 copies. McMurtrie's prodigious research uncovered the rarest books in many of the United States. As he notes under the most difficult conditions, missionaries to the Indians carried on printing small scriptures, hymn..... More
San Francisco, CA: Pierre Bovis, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 1000 copies. The present copy is #786 and signed by both authors. 144pp. Charles Miles' with the help of Pierre Bovis presents his collection of baskets from the American Indian and Eskimo with photographic illustrations. This is an essential..... More
New York: (1963): Carlton Press. First Edition. Octavo. 191 pp. Signed by author. Illustrated. The story of the Comancheros who often abducted the human cargos on the wagon trains and sold women and children as slaves. The illegal Comanchero traders were Anglos, Spaniards and renegade Indians. Bound in red cloth..... More
Flagstaff, Arizona; (1975): Northland Press. First Edition. Quarto. 1 of 150 copies of the superb limited edition. Foreword by Lloyd Kiva New. 197pp. This is the publisher's copy (Paul Weaver). Mr. Weaver founded the Northland Press in 1959 and made it the finest press on Indian life in the Southwest..... More
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1975. Fritz Scholder. First Edition. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 4to., 197pp. Biographical sketches and selected examples of the art of 17 southwestern artists. Gorgeous color plates. Artist photographs. Helen Cordero, Tony Da, Douglas Hyde, Elizabeth White, and 13 others. A stunning celebration..... More