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
Native Americana
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
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians (SIGNED, Two Volumes)
London: Published for the author by Tilt and Bogue, Fleet Street, 1842. 3rd. Original boards. Third Edition. Clipped SIGNATURE "From Geo. Catlin/the author. 1872" laid in. Large 8vo. vii, 264pp; viii, 266pp. Large folding map in Volume I; two engraved map plates in Volume II; and over 300 black &... 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
Indians of the Pueblos (SIGNED with drawing)
Chicago: Albert Whitman, 1936. Reprint. Original cloth. Early printing. INSCRIBED to a friend by both authors; original pencil drawing by Edwin Deming. An additional notation in Mrs. Deming's had indicates this book was written from her diary when she was a youngster of 18 years. Small 8vo. 224 pp. Pictorial... More
Little Eagle (SIGNED with drawing)
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
Red People of the Wooded Country (SIGNED with drawing)
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
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. One of 1000 copies printed by W. Thomas Taylor. Octavo; xiv, 60 pages in natural linen with paper label to front board. Original offering circular and Publisher's Addendum laid in.As New in like dust jacket - unread and as issued. 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
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
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 (light wear at corners & spine ends). In the summer of 1867 the Kiowas, Cheyennes, Osages... 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
Aztec Ruins on the Animas: Excavated, Preserved, and Interpreted
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Large 8vo. (viii) 120pp. Numerous photo-illustrations. Orange cloth in color printed dustjacket. The history, excavation, preservation, and significance of the site in relation to the Anasazi world of Chaco, Mesa Verde, and Salmon Ruins. More