Navahos Have Five Fingers
Norman, OK: Univeristy of Oklahoma Press, 1963. 3rd. Hardcover. Third printing. 8vo. (xiv) 245pp. Bibliography; Index. Volume 68 of Civiliation of the American Indian Series. More
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On the Bloody Trail of Geronimo: A Soldier's Journal-Account of the Apache Campaign of 1886
Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1958. Hooper; McDougall; Chapin; Hatfield; Remington, Frederic. 1st. Hardcover. First edition; limited to 750 copies 8vo. xxv, 237pp. Black & white illustrations by Frederic Remington and other artists including Hooper, McDougall, Chapin, and Hatfield. Edited, with foreword and introduction by Arthur Woodward. Red cloth covered boards;... More
Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1950. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 406pp, including index and appendices. Black & white illustrations. Red cloth covered boards; original red dust jacket. Some age-toning; wear to upper corners & spine head else a near fine copy. "Drawing his material from conversations with... More
A Cheyenne Sketchbook
Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1964. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. xv, 96pp, including index. Color illustrations by Cohoe during his capivity; black & white photographic illustrations. Black and red cloth covered boards; gilt title to the spine; original color illustrated dust jacket. Near fine in near fine dustjacket (light wear... More
The Navajo Indians
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. x, 316pp, including appendix, bibliography, and index. Black & white illustrations; photographs; map end papers. Orange cloth covered boards; black illustration and titles to front board and spine; original illustrated dust jacket. Book in fine condition in very good dust... More
My Adventures in Zuni
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
Cherokee Cavaliers: Forty years of Cherokee History as told in the Correspondence of the Ridge-Watie-Boudinot Family
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
The Road to Disappearance
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 399pp, including bibliography and index. Black & white illustrations; photographic plates; maps. Blue cloth covered boards; gilt titles to spine; original illustrated dust jacket. Book in near fine condition (light wear to extremities) in very good dust jacket... More
Cynthia Ann Parker: The Story of Her Capture at the Massacre of the Inmates of Parker's Fort; of her Quarter of a Century Spent Among the Comanches, as the Wife of the War Chief, Peta Nocona; and of her Recapture at the Battle of Pease River, by Captain L.S. Ross, of the Texian Rangers
Dallas: Chama Press, 1991. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo; xiv, 60 pages in natural linen with paper label to front board. As New in like dust jacket - unread and as issued. One of 1000 copies printed by W. Thomas Taylor; original offering circular laid in. More
The Imperial Osages: Spanish-Indian Diplomacy in the Mississippi Valley
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983. 1st. Hardcover. First edition; review copy. 8vo. xv, 432pp, including bibliography and index. Black & white illustrations; frontispiece portrait illustration of Pawhuska, White Hairs or Cheveaux Blancs, Chief of the Great Osages; 14 maps. Black and purple cloth covered boards; original cream illustrated dust... More
Indians of the Southwest
Santa Fe: George T. Nicholson, 1903. Reprint. Hardcover. hite illustrations; fold-out duo-tone map at rear; photographic & textual illustrations by A. S. Covey. Grey llustrated stiff wrappers. Wear to corners and spine; spotting to bottom page edges; Very good. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders... More
The Nez Perces: Tribesmen of the Columbia Plateau
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
The Pueblo Indian World: Studies on the Natural History of the Rio Grande Valley in Relation to Pueblo Indian Culture
Alberquerque: The University of New Mexico, 1945. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 182pp. Black & white illustrations; fold-out map. Blue leatherette covered boards; titles to spine; original illustrated dust jacket. Fine in near fine dustjacket (slight spine fading; light wear to extremities; light rubbing to covers). Handbooks of Archaeological History... More
Red Cloud's Folk: A History of the Oglala Sioux Indians
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1937. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. xi, 331pp. Black & white frontispiece portrait of Red Cloud by Lyman Byxbe. Beige cloth with dark brown lettering to spine; front cover & rear flap of dustjacket laid in. Near fine (minor foxing to boards). More
Three Years among the Indians and Mexicans
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
Indian Basketry, and How to Make Indian and Other Baskets
Pasadena, CA: George Wharton James, 1903. 3rd. Hardbound. 3rd Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 8vo. 271, [1]; 136, [8] pp. Bibliography; Appendix; Index. Hundreds of illustrations. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Light wear to extremities; shelf wear; a very good copy. This volumes contains two titles for the... More
Indians of the Painted Desert Region: Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, Havasupais (INSCRIBED)
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
Indians of the Painted Desert Region: Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, Havasupais (SIGNED)
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1903. 1st. Original boards. INSCRIBED by the author to the wife of business magnate John D Larkin. First edition. 8vo. xxi, 268pp + [3] advertisements pp. Bibliography. Black & white photo-illustrations (including frontispiece with tissue guard). Pictorial cloth boards; housed in later slipcase. Light wear... More
Practical Basket Making
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
The Treaty of Medicine Lodge: The Story of the Great Treaty Council As Told by Eyewitnesses
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. (xv), 237 pages. Bibliography, index, map, photographs. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in illustrted dust jacket. Fine in near fine dustjacket. In the summer of 1867 the Kiowas, Cheyennes, Osages, Arapahoes and others met in southern Kansas... More
Navajo Creation Myth: The Story of Emergence (Navajo Religion Series, Vol I)
Santa Fe: Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, 1942. 1st. Hardcover. First edition, Limited to 1000 copies. 8vo. 237pp. Glossary. Full color and black & white illustrations; black & white frontispiece photographic portrait of Hasteen Klah; 15 full color sand paintings from the Hozhonji. Recorded by Mary C. Wheelwright. Turquooise cloth... More
California Indian Folklore (SIGNED)
Shafter, CA: Published by the author, 1936. 1st. Half-leather. 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 Directory... More
California Indian Folklore (SIGNED)
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
Blackfeet Indians of Glacier National Park
St. Paul, MN: Great Northern Railroad, 1947. 1st. Original wrappers. First edition. 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; 25 color prints by noted American artist Winold... More
The Pollen Path: A Collection of Navajo Myths
Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1956. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. [viii], 205pp, +[3]pp index. Color frontispiece and black & white in-text illustrations. Orange cloth covered boards; yellow stamped illustration to front board; yellow titles to spine; original color illustrated dust jacket. Fine in near fine dust jacket (minor crease... More