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
Apache Agent: The Story of John P. Clum
boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. xiv, [2], 296, [1] pp. Color frontispiece; numerous photographic plates.Red cloth with printed spine label in publisher's dustjacket with wraparound cover art depicting the capture of Geronimo by Herbert Morton Stoops. Previous owner name else fine in good only dustjacket (some..... 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
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
In Search of the Wild Indian: Photographs and Life Works by Carl and Grace Moon (SIGNED)
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
Lone War Trail Of Apache Kid
Pasadena, CA: Trail's End Publishing, 1947. First Edition. 143 pp. Bibliography; Index. 9 illustrated plates (including one in color after a painting by Charles M. Russell). Blue cloth with gilt lettering; map illustrated endpapers in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket, with a hint of wear..... 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
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
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
Peter Thompson's Narrative of the Little Bighorn Campaign 1876: A Critical Analysis of an Eyewitness Account of the Custer Debacle (SIGNED)
Glendale: Arthur C. Clark, 1974. 1st. Original cloth. INSCRIBED by Magnussen in the year of publication. First Edition. 8vo. 339pp, including appendices, bibliography and index with lists of officers under Terry & Custer's command. Black & white illustrations; maps; photographs; large fold-out map frontispiece. Single page prospectus laid in. Blue..... More
The People Called Apache (SIGNED)
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. A Rutledge Book; Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1974. 1st. Leather bound. First Edition, Limited #5 of 150 copies, specially bound; SIGNED by the author. 4to. 447 pp. Bibliography; Index. Illustrated with 16 color plates; more than 300 previously unpublished photographs; and over 200 charcoal and pencil drawings. Padded brown..... More
Rhythm for Rain: The Drama and Ancient Culture of the Hopi Indians Portrayed in the Epic Story of the Great Drought
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. xi, 271pp, +54 plates. Black & white illustrations; 54 photographic plates. Review copy with publisher's card & photograph of 'Hohmsona and the Racing Gods' laid in. Black cloth covered boards; gilt titles to spine; original illustrated dust jacket. Near fine..... More
Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians (Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society Volume XXXVI)
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
Navajo Medicine Man: Sandpaintings and Legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collections.
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
Illustrated HIstory of Indian Baskets and Plates made by California Indians and Many Other Tribes
Viola M. Roseberry, 1915. First Edition. Paperback. Oblong quarto; 34 unnumbered leaves featuring plates (verso) with descriptive text (verso). A Good to Very Good copy (faint soiling and spotting, a few small closed tears, beginning to pull away from the staples) with clean text and plates in tan stapled wrappers..... More
Indian Place-Names: Their Origin, Evolution, and Meanings, Collected in Kansas From the Siouan, Algonquian, Shoshonean, Caddoan, Iriquoian and Other Tongues
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo; xi, 380 pages. More
Lost Maramech and Earliest Chicago: A History of the Foxes and of Their Downfall Near the Great Village of Maramech
Chicago: Revell, 1903. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. 390 pp. Index. Photo-illustrations. TLS from a member of the author's family laid in. Orange pictorial cloth with gilt lettering in fine condition. The primary source for the destruction of the Fox Indian tribe. A more-recently discovered map from 1731 suggests that..... More
Handbook of Indian Dances: I, New Mexico Pueblos
Santa Fe: Pictograph Press, 1950. First Edition. Original wrappers. Octavo. 18pp. 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 near fine. The artistic..... More