Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926. First edition thus, first with the color plates issued by Grant. Complete in two volumes. Large 8vo. ix, 298; xii, 303 pp. With three hundred and twenty color illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings; large fold-out color map of Indian localities in 1833. Publisher's..... More
Santa Fe: The Peripatatic Press, 1941. 1st. Hardcover. Limited Edition 400 copies. Square octavo. 178pp. Striking serigraphs depicting 10 Zuni ceremonial masks reproduced in color; 20 line drawings of life in the pueblo and initial letters by Fanita Lanier. Grey cloth with green & silver lettering in grey printed dustjacket..... More
Norman, OK: 1939. Advance Copy. Softcover. Octavo. (xxiii) 319pp. Photo-illustrations; map; folding genealogical chart. Grey wrappers in decorative dust jacket with blue lettering. A series of letters printed exactly as written providing first hand accounts of the western Cherokees before, during and after the Civil War. The four main authors..... More
Chicago, New York & San Francisco: Laidlaw Brothers, 1931. Reprint. Original boards. Early printing. INSCRIBED to a friend by both authors; original pencil drawing by Edwin Deming. Small 8vo. 96 pp. Pictorial brown cloth with minimal wear; inscription on separate paper pasted inside front board; a near fine copy (light..... More
Chicago, New York & San Francisco: Laidlaw Brothers, 1932. Reprint. Original cloth. Early printing. INSCRIBED to a friend by both authors; original pencil drawing by Edwin Deming. Small 8vo. 191 pp. Pictorial brown cloth with minimal wear; inscription on separate paper pasted inside front board; a near fine copy (light..... More
Moscow, PA: Maurose Publishing, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Frist Edition. SIGNED by the author in year of publication. Large 4to. 432 pp. Over 400 photo-reproductions, more than 325 in color. Red cloth in black dustjacket with photographic image titled "A Navajo Boy" on front cover. Minor wear to extremities else a...... More
Yonkers-on-Hudson: World Book Company, 1919. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Curtis to Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, nature photographer, naturalist, filmaker and one of Hollywood's first female producers. 8vo. 112, [1] pp. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Quarter brown cloth spine over illustrated paper covered boards. Ex-libris with pocket inside front..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1934. First Edition. 8vo. 455, [1] pp. Fold-out map of Indian Territory 1842; illustrated plates. Bibliography; Index. Red cloth in black, yellow and red illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (slight fading to spine; minor wear to extremties). The eighth volume..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. xvii, 329pp. Bibliography; Index. Black & white illustrations; drawings; photographs. Red cloth covered boards; silver & black illustration to front board; silver titles to spine; original illustrated dust jacket. Book in near fine condition (light bumping along upper front..... More
Saint Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 1916. 2nd. Original boards. Second Edition, Limited to 365 copies; reprint of the very rare 1846 original edition printed in Waterloo, Illinois. 8vo. 316pp, [i]p of publisher's advertisements. Black & white tissue-guarded illustrative plates; map. Frontispiece and facsimile of 1846 title page included. Quarter black..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1907. 2nd. Leather bound. INSCRIBED "To Inez Ray Smith/with the compliments & good/wishes of a fellow lover of the/Indian/George Wharton James." Second Edition. 8vo. xxi, 268pp + [3] advertisements pp. Bibliography. Black & white photo-illustrations (including frontispiece with tissue guard). Three-quarter green morocco and cloth..... More
Pasadena, CA: George Wharton James, N.d. (c 1920). New Edition. Enlarged and Revised with New Illustrations. Cloth. Octavo. 124pp. Numerous black & white photo-illustrations. Black cloth with gilt lettering. More
Shafter, CA: Published by the author, 1936. First Edition, Limited Edition #4 of 10 copies printed on special paper and hand-bound by the Santa Barbara Bindery (as noted by the author in his own hand). SIGNED by Latta. 8vo. 209 pp. 34 photo-plates. Latta's business card as Director of the..... More
Shafter, CA: Published by the author, 1936. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. 8vo. 209 pp. 34 photo-plates. SIGNED and dated by the author. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. A fine copy. As Told to F. F. Latta by 15 Native Americans. A Collection of California Indian Folklore Tales..... More
St. Paul, MN: Great Northern Railroad, 1947. First Edition. Oblong small 4to. 12 pp pamphlet by Frank Bird Linderman titled "Out of the North: A Brief Historical Sketch of the Blackfeet Indian Tribe" along with biographical sketches of Reiss and Linderman; 24 color reproductions of noted American artist Winold Reiss'..... More
Nicasio, CA: Hawk Hill Press, 2010. First Edition. SIGNED by Ned and Jody Martin. 144 pp. Oblong 4to (12 1/4" x 13 3/4").. Glossary; Bibliography; Index. Includes 500 images (most in color) of silver bridles from museums and private collections, as well as depictions in ledger drawings and historic photos..... More
Bismarck, N.D: Bismarck Tribune Company, 1916. First Edition. Tall 8vo. 200 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author; black & whtie illustrations. Grey cloth with color design of a Sioux chief in war bonnet on upper front and bleck lettering in publisher's grey dustjacket with the same design. A fine copy..... More
New York: American Folk-Lore Society, 1940. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. x, 296pp, including bibliography and index. Red cloth covered boards; gilt titles to the spine. All edges neat and clean; slight wear to spine ends; light spine fading. Near fine. Contents include: The Origin Myth; Tales of Encounters with..... More
New York: J. J. Augustin, 1939. 1st. Half leather. First Edition. 4to. xvi, 83 pp. Frontispiece, 24 color silk-screen printed plates, portrait etching of the artist Miguelito by H. F. Kraus, numerous text illustrations. Half brown morocco over brown cloth boards, gilt design to front cover; housed in uncommon publisher's..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo; xi, 380 pages. More
Santa Fe: Pictograph Press, 1950. First Edition. Octavo. 18pp. Hand-made stapled wrappers in dust jacket. 8 color serigraphs illustrating various Indian dances (including a block print on the front cover). Bibliography; Calendar of Dances. Minor wear to extremities and hint of soiling to covers otherwise fine condition. The artistic block..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; xx, 260 pages. Civilization of American Indian Series. More
New York: New York University Press, 1964. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED on half title 'Inscribed for John Caughey/who perhaps started it all for me by publishing/my first historical article in the/Pacific Historical Review fifteen years/ago Art(?) Washburn/May 12, 1967 (Plannin Conference/American Indian History). Octavo; xxiii, 480 pages. Fine copy..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 303 pp. Rust colored cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. Fine in fine dustjacket, with a hint of wear; dustjacket flap corners clipped but price is intact; a lovely copy. The source for the 1954 Robert Aldrich movie, "Apache," with a blue-eyed Burt..... More