Alexander Lesser (115 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condition: VG-. Paperback. VG-. 340pp. Biblio. Light soiling, wear extremities, fading interior.

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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. a nice, clean copy, like new, octavo paperback, 340 pages, facsimile reprint of 1933 Columbia University edition with a new introduction by the author.

1933/1978. North America, Native Americans. University of Wisconsin Press. Very good paperback 340p.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback Edition. Discusses "Ghost Dance Revival and Ethnic Identity", being a modern reprint of this "great seminal work concerning the American Plains Indians", first published in 1933. Book.

1933/1978. North America, Native Americans. University of Wisconsin Press. Very good cloth 340p.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A tight, crisp copy, with no signs of prior use, and just a touch of fading to the covers. Fast shipping world wide, with tracking number supplied to all US customers.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. First Printing. Pp: xxvi + 340. Titles: frt. & sp. Illust. w/ b/w diagrams & photos. Sp. a bit sunned. Interior leaves are clean and tight. Originally published in 1933. Detailed study of the Pawnee Ghost Dance of a society in break-down and shock. Includes notes & bibliography. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Thus. Red cloth boards. Reprint of 1933 Columbia University Press edition. Bibliography. 340 pp. Light shelf wear but appears unread. NEAR FINE.

First printing stated. Softbound. Fine. MP1-663H.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. trade paperback in near fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New with no dust jacket. Reprint of 1933 Edition. "Ghost dance revival and ethnic identity." First published in series of Columbia University Publications in Anthropology, reprinted in 1969 by AMS. This UW edition has an added author's foreword and expanded bibliography, 340 pages, no remainder mark ; 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 ".

Paperback. 340pp. As new, clean, tight & bright condition.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good. Vol. 7, No. 3. Edited by William L. Hamling. Cover art by Malcolm Smith for "Battle for the Stars" (novel) by Alexander Blade [Edmond Hamilton]; "Dalrymple's Equation" Paul W. Fairman; "Gunnison's Bonanza" by Dick Purcell; "Planet of Doom" (novelette) by C. H. Thames [Milton Lesser]; "Mystery at Mesa Flat" by Ivar Jorgensen [house pseud., unattributed]; "The Obedient Servant" by S. M. Tenneshaw [house pseud., unattributed]. Features: The Editorial"; "I.C.B.M."; "Solar Power"; "Bustle Building"; "Fandora's Box"; "Science Fiction Library"; "Letters from the Readers"; "Tomorrow's Science". Illustrated by W. E. Terry and Lloyd Rognan. Creasing; scars and rubs; rear cover torn at hinge and 1/2 loose; # stamp and marks in pencil on first page; front cover likely glued on at hinge. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 7, No. 2. Edited by William L. Hamling. Cover art by Malcolm Smith for "The Legion of Lazarus" (novel) by Edmond Hamilton. Includes "The Graveyard of Space" by Milton Lesser; "Mr. Chipfellow's Jackpot" by Dick Purcell; "The Beasts in the Void" by Paul W. Fairman; "Zero Hour" by Alexander Blade; "Prison of a Billion Years" by C. H. Thames [Milton Lesser]. Features: "Introducing the Author: Edmond Hamilton" "The Editorial"; "Fly by the Bottoms"; "Satellite"; "Fandora's Box"; "Science Fiction Library"; "Letters from the Readers"; "Tomorrow's Sci." Illustrated by H. W. McCauley, W. E. Terry and Lloyd Rognan. Cartoons by Kohler and other. Short tears and losses at spine ends; rear hinge glue-mended; creasing; tanning; spine bent at head. Book.

Wraps. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. Vol. 3, No. 6. Edited by William l. Hamling. Cover art by LLoyd Rognan for "Cosmic Kings" (novel) by Alexander Blade [Edmond Hamilton]; "Microscopic Nightmare" by C. H. Thomas [Milton Lesser]; "The Valiant Die Hard!" by Adam Chase [Milton Lesser]; "The Last Enemy" by Robin Peters; "The Runaway' by Ivar Jorgensen (unattributed); "No Trap for the Keth" by Ralph Burke [Randall Garret & Robert Silverberg]. Features: "The Editorial"; "Build Your Own Robot"; "Scientifilm Marquee" by Forrest J. Ackerman; "Rocket Landings"; "Letters from the Readers"; "Book-Subscription page". Illustrated by uncredited artists. Cartoons by Scheffy and others. Glue-mend at heel; wear to spine edges and ends; creasing; tanning; edge wear with minor tears. Magazine.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. 337 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. PLEASE NOTE: This is Columbia University Contributions to Anthrpopology, Volume 16.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 337 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. PLEASE NOTE: This is Columbia University Contributions to Anthrpopology, Volume 16.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Name on front end page, no other marks or writings, pages bright and clean, binding tight and sound. Small light scratch to back cover. Carefully packaged and shipped in box. 340 pp L.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. The Caddoan linguistic stock comprises four major languages: Pawnee, Wichita, Kitsai, and Caddo. 15 pp. A nice copy.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 37, pp. 386-393, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, last page in facsimile, else VG.

PB. Condition: very good++, wraps (softcover). 340pp ISBN 0803279655 Originally written in 1932 and based on field research among the Pawnees in 1929-31. The present edition includes a foreword and an expanded bibliography to the original text. Dedicated to Franz Boas (my great-grandfather).

Wraps. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. 3, No. 6. Edited by William l. Hamling. Cover art by LLoyd Rognan for "Cosmic Kings" (novel) by Alexander Blade [Edmond Hamilton]; "Microscopic Nightmare" by C. H. Thomas [Milton Lesser]; "The Valiant Die Hard!" by Adam Chase [Milton Lesser]; "The Last Enemy" by Robin Peters; "The Runaway' by Ivar Jorgensen (unattributed); "No Trap for the Keth" by Ralph Burke [Randall Garret & Robert Silverberg]. Features: "The Editorial"; "Build Your Own Robot"; "Scientifilm Marquee" by Forrest J. Ackerman; "Rocket Landings"; "Letters from the Readers"; "Book-Subscription page". Illustrated by uncredited artists. Cartoons by Scheffy and others. Tanning; spine sunning; corner wear; minor creasing. Magazine.

Pulp Magazine. Good condition. Ink and pencil marks to the contents page. Includes "The Devil in a Box" by Alexander Blade, and others.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Hardcover bound in orange cloth with white lettering, no jacket as issued, as New FINE condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint of the 1933 edition.

Paperback. Condition: New. New softcover in printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches) Includes bibliography. 342 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The Ghost Dance religion that swept through the Plains Indian tribes in the early 1890s was embraced wholeheartedly by the Pawnees. It was a message of hope to a people devastated by the attacks of enemy tribes, the encroachment of white settlers, and the outbreak of epidemics. For the Pawnees, who were looking to the U.S. government and trying unsuccessfully to farm their land, the Ghost Dance movement promised salvation: a restoration of the Indian dead, the buffalo, and the old times. Alexander Lesser shows how the Ghost Dance brought about a partial revival of traditional Pawnee culture and its dances and songs. The ancient guessing hand game, remembered best by a tribe starved for the joy of play, became an important part of the Ghost Dance ritual. What had been a gambling game, a representation of warfare played by men, was transformed into a sacred game played by both sexes as an expression of faith or "good fortune." Lesser surveys the history of the Pawnee Indians and their relations with the federal government and describes in detail the Ghost Dance hand games that "were the chief intellectual product of Pawnee culture" from the onset of the messianic movement to the original publication of this book in 1933. Citing such authorities as James Mooney and Stewart Culin, Lesser produced an enduring classic, now introduced by Alice Beck Kehoe, a professor of anthropology at Marquette University and the author of The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization.