Frederick Webb Hodge Editor (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. no dustjacket as issued. Second printing, 1973. Two volumes in one. Slightly canted binding showing minor wear to extremities, bottom rear corner bruised. Very light soiling to cloth and text block edges. Text and images unmarked. Illustrations in b/w. 4to. 219pp.

1974. (Mass market paperback) Very good plus. 632pp. Folding maps. Reprint of the 1913 Geographic Board of Canada edition, which was itself a reprint, with corrections and additions, of portions of the Bureau of American Ethnology 2 volume "Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico".

1971. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 632pp. Folding maps. Reprint of the 1913 Geographic Board of Canada edition, which was itself a reprint, with corrections and additions, of portions of the Bureau of American Ethnology 2 volume "Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico".

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Impression. HEAVY (additional postage outside Australia). ix, 972pp, num bw ills, 2 folding maps. Or green cloth. Small stamp and numbers on title page (ex Scripps Institution), even toning to page edges and light rubbing to cloth. First volume only (of 2) dealing with North American Indians from A-M. Size: 8vo. …

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Likely first edition, first printing of this new edition, the title page is dated 1934. Volume 2 only. Clean and tightly bound in navy cloth with gilded titles and top textblock edge and blind stamped imagery on the cover. One corner with a mild bump and the edges have light wear, remains very good. Illustrated throughout with 123 color images including Black Hawk. The contents show slight wear and remain unmarked. One endpaper is paper split at the hinge (not affecting the binding), it has a light repair. A remarkable reference book. International shipping and domestic Priority Mail may require added postage charges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ix, 972 pages illustrations, folding colour map ; 24 cm. Part 1 (of 2) only. Fourth impression, September, 1912. Bound in original publisher's green cloth; gilt spine titles. Series: Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology), 30.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. 972 pp. Original olive green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed; spine a bit sunned. Corners and spine ends bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Edges of leaves a bit age toned. Illust. w/ b/w portraits and drawings w/ a large fold-out color map in rear.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used 2 VOLUME SET! Brown cloth with black and silver lettering on the spine. 2193 informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations and photographs! "During the early exploration and settlement of North America, a multitude of Indian tribes were encountered, having diverse customs and languages. Lack of knowledge of the aborigines and of their languages led to many curious errors on the part of the early explorers and settlers: names were applied to the Indians that had no relation whatever to their aboriginal names; sometimes nicknames were bestowed, owing perhaps to personal characteristics, fancied or real; sometimes tribes came to be known by names given by other tribes, which were often opprobrious; frequently the designation by which a tribal group was know to itself was employed, and as such names are oftentimes unpronounceable by alien tongues and unrepresentable by civilized alphabets, the result was a sorry corruption, varying according as the sounds were impressed on Spanish, English, French, Dutch, German, Russian, or Swedish ears. Sometimes, again, bands of a single tribe were given distinctive tribal names, while clans and gentes were often regarded as independent autonomous groups to which separate tribal designations likewise were applied. Consequently, in the literature relating to the American Indians, which is practically coextensive with the literature of the first three centuries of the New World, thousands of such names are recorded, the significance and application of which are to be understood only after much study. The need of a comprehensive work on the subject has been felt ever since scientific interest in the Indians was first aroused. many lists of tribes have been published, but the scientific student, as well as the general reader, until the present time has been practically without the means of knowing any more about a given confederacy, tribe, clan, or settlement of Indians than was to be gleaned from casual references to it. The work of which this Handbook is an outgrowth had its inception as early as 1873, when Prof. Otis T. Mason, now of the United States National Museum, began the preparation of a list of the tribal names mentioned in the vast literature pertaining to the Indians, and in due time several thousand names were recorded, with references to the works in which they appear." ---- from the Preface. (2 VOLUME SET).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Two volumes; bulletin 30; volume 1 front hinge cracked; text block tight; former owner's name and date FFE; wear to head & heel of spine; boards rubbed. Volume 2 front hinge cracked; text block tight; former owner's name and date FFE; wear to head & heel of spine; boards rubbed & corners bumped.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Dates: Vol. 1--1912 (Fourth Impression); Vol. 2: 1910. Original olive green cloth covers w/ gilt titles on spines. Bindings lightly soiled and rubbed; spines a bit sunned. Corners and spine ends bumped. Previous owner's name stamp on front paste-downs w/ ink and pencil name crossed-out on paste-down of Vol. 2. Edges of leaves a bit age toned. Illust. w/ b/w portraits and drawings w/ a large fold-out color map in rear of Vol. 1 (approx. 1 1/4" closed tear to map, which has been neatly repaired).…

Hardcover. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. ix, 972; iv, 1221. text in double columns. folding partly coloured map. numerous text illus. original cloth (short tears in pp. 949-68 - no loss). First Edition. "The [alphabetically arranged] handbook contains a descriptive list of the stocks, confederacies, tribes, tribal divisions, and settlements north of Mexico [including the Eskimo], accompanied with the various names by which these have been known, together with biographies of Indians of note, sketches of their history, archeology, manners, arts, customs, and institutions, and the aboriginal words incorporated into the English language." (Letter of Transmittal). Howes H-556. …

hardback. Condition: Fine. Illustrated. 2 volumes. Washington (G.P.O.) 1907-1910. Bound in cloth, with name of owner in gold on covers.

McKENNEY, Thomas L. and HALL, James. The Indian Tribes of North America, With Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. A New Edition, Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1933. 4to. Three vols. Illus. with two portrs., 123 color plates and two colored maps. 441; 458; 355pp. A very good set in orig. cloth. Howes M-129. ".the most beautiful portraits of Indians ever executed." The original oil paintings, from which these plates were copied, were destroyed in the Smithsonian fire of 1865. HODGE, Frederick Webb (Editor) (illustrator). …