Native Americans (141 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Heavy book 3lbs, 14 oz.

Folio. xvii, [3], 251, [3] pp. 40 colour plates, 25 text illusts., 1 map. Colour-illust. softcvrs, NF. First softcover edition, 2nd printing, of this invaluable reference work first published in 1941 on the making and meaning of the Pueblo costumes of New Mexico and Arizona.

Large Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No markings or underlining. No rem-mark.

Folio. xxvii, [11], 89, [1] pp. Photos, maps, illusts. Colour-illust. softcvrs (mnr rubbng, occasional annotations & pencil underlining), G-. Reprint edition of this famed work prepared on the Iroquois, including data on the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras.

paper wrappers. Native Americans (illustrator). small 8vo. paper wrappers. xii, 208 pages. An annotated bibliography and study guide for the teaching of Native American history and culture to older high school students. An introduction discusses sterotypes in ethnic literature, and explains the author's criteria for the selection of recommended books. Grouped by topics, study guide to selected books, indexed by authors and by titles. Minor shelf-wear.

stiff paper wrappers. Native Americans (illustrator). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 50 pages. First edition, second printing. Illustrated by Don Stein. Children's book about Delaware's indians. Book I in the Granddad's Delaware History Series.

8vo. 176 pp. Numerous photos, double-page map, illustrations all sepia-toned. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, w/ d.j. NF/NF copy. First edition of this excellent personal narrative chronicling the Yakima, Cayuse and Walla Walla Indian War in Washington and Oregon Territories.

First edition, first printing. With illustrations throughout by Robert J. Neary. Small folio, approx 8.5 by 5.5 inches, staple-bound in the original printed wrapper featuring Indian portraits in burnt umber by Robert. J. Neary [ii], 76, [1] pp. Well preserved for a delicate and inexpensively produced paperback of this era. The text fine but for a few pages dog-eared at the lower corner, the wrappers attractive and complete with little or no wear but a bit of general mottling and also dog-eared at the lower corner. SCARCE, INFORMATIVE, AND ENTREATINGLY WRITTEN. This history of the New England Native American tribes begins many, many years prior to the Pilgrims. It includes information on European explorers and traders who had contact with the Native peoples prior to the Plymouth colony as well. There is much on Massasoit, Squanto, Tokamahamon, and the Pilgrim wars with the Massachusetts and Wampanoag. This is followed by numerous biographies. New England Journeys was a regional publication of the Ford Motor Company, similar to Reader's Digest and Yankee in format.

paper wrappers. Native Americans (illustrator). 4to. paper wrappers. 56 pages. 122 items described in this exhibition catalogue. Fine condition. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.

Cloth and boards. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. B&W photos of native Americans (illustrator). First Edition. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gilt lettering on spine over navy blue boards, illustrated with several full-page B&W plates of native Americans taken by the Wannamaker expedition, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with red-colorized photograph of Indians standing before the American flag, 308 pages. Based on years of research into the highly problematic Wannamaker Expedition of 1913 in which 75 Indian reservations were visited by Bureau of Indian Affairs agents who were led by Dr. Dixon, a photographer who wished to record the last redmen, while exhorting them to pledge allegiance to the United States. SIGNED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: Tight, bright, clean copy. Slight rubbing to upper right corner of front free endpaper. Dust jacket (unclipped) is clean, bright, and with slight ruffling to the top of the dj's spine.

Folio. 319, [1] pp. Frntsp., 100s of colour and blk & wht photo illusts., text illusts. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng (sml stmp lwr fore-edge textblk), w/ d.j. VG/NF. First edition of this spectacular exhibition catalogue, including artifacts from Northwest Coast Indian tribes, Osage of Oklahoma, Southwest Indians, and California tribes.

Thick Oblong folio. 445, [1] pp. 242 black & white photo plates, 59 colour plates. Red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, w/ d.j. (tear to back cover upper fore-edge), NF/G- copy. Reprint edition of this spectacular work on Native American artwork, including sections on the pottery and silverwork of the Pueblo Indians, ornamental masks of the Tlingit, Eskimo, and other Northwest Coast tribes, beadwork of the Plains and Pacific Plataeau tribes, California Native American basketry, and more.

Self wrappers. First edition. Unpaged [4 pp]. 19 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches. Contents include the Executive Speech of Vermont Governor Cornelius P. Van Ness in Montpelier on October 14th, 1825 in which he again asks for more resources for education. Also latest foreign and local Vergennes news as well as a half column on the western Indians, treaties and ceremonies including the Sioux. Lake Champlain Steam Boat advert. Published from 1824 to 1833. This issue not at AAS. OCLC shows only one holding of this issue: at the Vermont State Library. Bibliography of Vermont: p. 213. A very good copy, removed from a bound volume.

stiff paper wrappers. Native Americans (illustrator). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 49 pages. A LIST OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS ON THIS SUBJECT IN THE EDWARD E. AYER COLLECTION OF THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY. The scarce supplement to this monumental work on the Native Americans. A fine copy.

stapled paper wrappers. Native Americans (illustrator). 4to. stapled paper wrappers. 78 pages. A scarce reference book. A near fine copy. A neat presentation on the inside cover. The purpose of this listing is two-fold: to inform students, scholars, and Indian people generally of the existence of this archive and to enlist of the help of Princetons friends in making the collection even more comprehensive. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people.

cloth. Native Americans (illustrator). 8vo. cloth. x, 576 pages. First edition. Some fading and shelfwear to covers. This bibliography is based on the collection at the Willard E. Yager Library - Museum at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. There are 4387 separate entries along with extensive title and subject indices.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.

stiff paper wrappers. Native Americans (illustrator). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xx, 735 pages. Bibliographic items which "might be useful to a person interested in the Hopi Indians." Generally excludes manuscripts, reviews, newspaper items, recordings, etc.; only government and foreign publications included are those "which are regularly cited in historical and anthropological literature." All items examined by the author except as otherwise noted. 2,935 numbered entries, arranged by author or title. The author was head librarian at the University of Arizona at the time. Title, subject indexes. Spine faded, with some general shelf wear, else very good.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.

Tall 8vo. 133, [3] pp. Numerous illusts., photos, maps. Printed & illust. softcvrs (mnr sunng to spine), VG- copy, signed by the author on title. First edition, signed of this work on Native Americans in North & South Dakota and Minnesota.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Robert Kraus, Native Americans in the Museum Case Corver Art; george Price, Syd Hoff, Whitney Darrow, Jr., James Steenson , Dana Fradon Etc (illustrator). 1st. stapled wraps; 164 clean, unmarked page; iitems by/about: R. Prawer Jhabvala ("Lekha"); Arthur Kobber ("What's a Girl Suppossed to do--Sit aroun' and 'twill Her Thumbs?"); Robert Mezey (poem); Mortn M. Hunt (Profiles: Roderick and Olin Stephens, Pt Ii, Up from Corker); A.J. Liebling (Far-flung Correspondents: Behind the glass Panel, Sammy, the Taxi Driver in Israel); Joe Savage ("The Long Way Hoe"); R.P. Lister (poem); Ernard Taper (Onward and Upward with the Arts: Ballet from the wings); Richard h Rovere (Books: Arthur Koestler & Glanville Williams Books on Life and Death); Talk of the Town, Cinema, Theater, Arts, Music, Book reviews, Etc.

Self wrappers. First edition. Unpaged [4 pp]. 27 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches. Supports the Democratic Party. Extensive coverage of the 1856 elections, with large ad for James Buchanan for President and John C. Breckinridge for Vice President. Also notice for the sale of Delaware Indian Lands at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, moving the sale until the 17th of November, with a list of tracts. A very good copy with a fold, removed from a bound volume; small tears along fore edge.

softcover. Native Americans (illustrator). 4to. softcover. 113 pages. A definitive study of authentic tools, materials, techniques, and styles regarding Native American clothing. Fine condition. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.

4to. [4], xiv, 256 pp. Illustrations, plates throughout. Black publisher's cloth, illustrated endpapers, w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by Parks, F/F copy, signed by both author & illustrator on limitation page. First edition (1 of 500 copies), thus, stated, signed by both author & illustrator of this excellent mystery set against the murders and conspiracy amongst the Arapahoe Peoples on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, and the first in her Wind River Mystery series.

8vo. [8], 183, [1] pp. Double-page illustrated title, numerous text illustrations. Green boards, black lettering, w/d.j. wraparound cover art by Surrey, NF/NF copy. Second printing of this anthology relating the coastal Northwest Native American myths and stories from the First Nations Raven tales of mischief and cunning.

Condition: New.

8vo. viii, [2], 310 pp. With plates, maps including 1 large folding Ethnographic Map of Southeastern Alaska Territory of the Tlingit laid-in. Turquoise-coloured publisher's cloth, red lettering (slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. (minor edgewear, slight dustsoiling), still NF/NF copy. First edition in English of this principal source of information on the Tlingit Indigenous Peoples in the 19th-Century as the original German Report published in 1885 was assembled from extensive first-hand interviews when the Tlingit were in the early stages of acculturation.

Tall 8vo. pp. 375-400. Plates 71-73. Printed wrappers, stapled as issued (mnr rubbng, sml brn hole on frnt cvr, vry mnr sunng to spine), still nice copy. First edition of this exceptionally scarce offprint.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 6 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Printed before 1800; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Tall thick 8vo. vi, 853, [1] pp. Photo frontisp. of author. Gray cloth, red lettering & decoration (minor bowing to spine), still VG copy. Reprint edition of this invaluable reference work to the Teton Sioux languages and dialect.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 8vo. . VI, No. 4 (October 1893). Original printed wrappers printed with seal of the Anthropological Society of Washington. Front wrap detached. Sold as is.