Native Americans, First Edition (80 results)

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.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. First paperback printing. Paperback. xl, 187 pages. Illustrations. Interior contents clean.

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.

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.

Wraps. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Stapled wraps. 31 pages. Illustrations. Stapled white soft cover with photograph of "The Worcestor House" and title on front cover. Light shelf wear to the covers. Contents include an article on the "Excavations of New Echota in 1954." New Echota was the site of the former Cherokee Tribe's Capital in Georgia. Worcestor was a missionary to the Cherokees.

Wraps. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Wraps. 27 pages. Stapled soft cover with title in red on the front cover. Two illustrations in text. Contents clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Octavo. xii, 306 pages, [4] pages of advertisements. Frontispiece illustration of Marcus Whitman. Illustrations. Tan illustrated cloth hardcover. Soiling to the covers. Front hinge cracked. Green check mark on the right front flyleaf. Interior contents clean. Contents cover John Eliot, Samson Occum, David Brainerd, Marcus Whitman, Stephen Riggs, and John Lewis Dyer. Laid inside this copy is a two page, punch holed, typed and written note regarding an ".Indian woman speaker address to 1935 missionary society of women.".

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.

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.

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.

Periodical. Condition: Good. First Edition. Periodical. 34 pages. Black and white illustrated covers. Stamp of former owner on the front cover. Contents illustrated with black and white photographs of Native Americans across several states making art, wearing traditional clothing, weaving blankets, pictures of young children and parents, working various jobs, etc. Light soil and wear to the magazine.

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.

Wraps. Condition: Good. First Edition. Disbound wraps. 31 pages. Contents cover 25 Native American tribes expense amounts. Contents clean.

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.

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.

Wraps. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Wraps. 12mo. [2], 108 pages. Frontispiece illustration. Green printed stitched wraps. Front wrap chipped. Rear wrap is detached and is chipped. Interior contents in very good condition. From wikipedia: On July 26, 1764, four Delaware (Lenape) Native Americans entered a settlers' log schoolhouse in the Province of Pennsylvania and killed the schoolmaster, Enoch Brown, and ten students. One other student named Archie McCullough was wounded.[1] Historian Richard Middleton described the massacre[2] as "one of the most notorious incidents" of Pontiac's War.[3].

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First Edition. Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. 164 pages. Illustrated. Jacket has light shelf wear and edge creases. Interior contents clean. The majority of the book covers the biography and Indian captivity of Hannah Dustin. Random illustrations include early Native Americans; the execution of Lady Jane Grey; photograph of Jesse James (dead); John Wilkes Booth; sinking of the Lusitania; etc. From wikipedia: Hannah Duston (also spelled Dustin, Dustan, Durstan, Dustun, Dunstun, or Durstun) (born Hannah Emerson, December 23, 1657 March 6, 1736,[1] 1737 or 1738[2]) was a colonial Massachusetts Puritan woman who was taken captive by Abenaki people from Quebec during King William's War, with her first newborn daughter, during the 1697 raid on Haverhill, in which 27 colonists, 15 of them children, were killed. In her account she stated that the Abenakis killed her newborn baby soon after they were captured. While detained on an island in the Merrimack River in present-day Boscawen, New Hampshire, she killed and scalped ten of the Abenaki family members holding them hostage, with the assistance of two other captives.

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.

8vo. 123, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates. Brick-red publisher's cloth, black lettering on spine (slightly shaken), w/ d.j. (slight scuffing, minor shelfwear), still VG/VG copy, numbered on verso of title. First edition, No. 896 of 1500 copies printed of this previously unpublished autobiography of a Clallam County pioneer boy and his life among the Makah Indians on the Olympic Peninsula, whale hunting, hewing out ocean-going canoes from giant cedar logs, and attending a Potlatch.

12mo. 174 pp. Illustrated title, 1 colour plate, black & white illustrations throughout. Gray pictorial publisher's cloth, bear reading book on front cover, w/ sun in background (minor dustsoiling, very minor shelfwear), VG copy. First edition of this scarce, and interesting primer which was written specifically for Native American children to learn to read. Zoe Porter was a primary school teacher from Iowa, who while teaching at Sitka, Alaska schools in the 1920s had determined that the regular curriculum was not meeting the needs of the Native American students, so she intended to write one based on Northwest Coast Indian legends and daily life.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Many photographic illustrations showing Native Americans in ceremonial garb (illustrator). 1st Edition. An original 1908 booklet promoting Sulphur Springs, Oklahoma, the Platt National Park ("Where Healing Waters Always Flow"), such leading local hostelries as The Artesian, the Metropolitan, and the Palace, and of course the Santa Fe Railroad. Many photographic illustrations showing Native Americans in ceremonial garb. (The photos are small but include an interesting group shot of the Osage lacrosse team, "which plays the tribal teams of other nations each summer in Platt National Park," a "Ponca Indian Sun Dance," and two photos of "Geronimo and his Warriors," visiting the park in an early jalopy, and also as they were "permitted to kill a buffalo" from horseback at the 101 Ranch. This 12mo paperback still tightly bound, though missing the top 1/4-inch of the spine covering. Tidemarks (dampstains) to upper spine corner of the first 35 pp., impinging no text. There is also a series of similar brown dampstains along the outside edge of the final 70 pp., from page 85 through pg. 154, showing up most prominently in the final, 9-page advertising section. Overall, "good." (Yes, there really was a Platt National Park, seventh in the nation, created in 1902 through an agreement between the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations and the federal government, under which the Chickasaw Nation sold the land to the government in order to protect the unique freshwater and mineral springs along Travertine and Rock Creeks. About 200 workers were employed there by the federal make-work Civilian Conservation Corps at any given time between 1933 and 1940 building mineral spring pavilions, campgrounds, picnic areas, dams and waterfalls, and a network of roads and trails. In the 1970s, the "Platt" lost its National Park status when it was merged with the Arbuckle Recreation Area to become the Chickasaw National Recreation Area.) Marable and Boylan's "Handbook of Oklahoma Writers" (University of Oklahoma Press, 1939) asserts "Oleta Littleheart" was a pen name for publisher Aaron Abbott, though one or more inscribed copies signed "Oleta Littleheart" are known. If there really was an Oleta Littleheart, and if this collection of tales was really written by a Chickasaw woman, it would predate "The Half-Blood," by Mourning Dove (identified by Larson as the earliest novel by a Native American woman) by nearly 20 years. Beware a recent facsimile reprint from the Arbuckle Historical Society, which may be bound in red leather. This ORIGINAL is glued into textured beige cardstock wraps. Reduced from $290. As with all our items priced $90 or higher, this book will be shipped "signature required.".

4to. [8], 536 pp. With 100s of photos, charts, diagrams, text illustrations, maps. Blue cloth, silver lettering, w/ d.j. NF/NF copy. First edition of this work providing an excellent summary of important new discoveries earlier thant 10,000 years old from Northeast Asia and North America which impact our changing perceptions about the origins of the First Americans. This work offers a detailed compendium of late-Pleistocene Paleoamerican archaeological records.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Very Good dust jacket with some fading to the spine and two small closed edge tears to the front panel. Myron Eells spent more than 30 years (1874-1907) as a missionary on the Skokomish Reservation in western Washington State, where he recorded details of Indian life. He served during a period of transition, when both federal and religious authorities sought to "civilize" the Indians as rapidly and thoroughly as possible, and Eells observed the cultural changes firsthand. Though he published some articles during his life, the manuscript of his study was neglected; it is published here for the first time. Anthropology professor Castile has edited the work to present an orderly narrative. Eells worked mainly with the Twana and Klallon tribes of the Coast Salish; he had a particular interest in their material culture, but he also describes potlatches, burial customs and religion (including the rise of the Shaker Church). In his afterword, anthropologist Elmendorf appraises Eells's work as an ethnographer. Fully illustrated.

Cloth Hardcover. Condition: NF-. First Edition. Original binding of dark brown fine ribbed cloth, gilt-pressed titles spine. 410 pages. Gilt soiled at spine and a short tear to cloth at spine foot, else near fine. A solid. clean copy.

Tall 8vo. xx, 289, [3] pp. Title in green & black, w/ photo illustrations, maps. Green boards, white & gilt lettering on spine (slight shelfwear, rubbing), w/ d.j. (minor scuffing, edgewear, minor sunning to spine), still NF/VG- copy, inscribed by both authors on ffep. First edition, stated & inscribed, of this invaluable work detailing the 150 Indigenous Peoples tribes belonging to 15 different language groups in the Pacific Northwest, from the coast to the Columbia Plateau and Great Basin, including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Western Montana. Volume 173 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series.

Folio. 224 pp. Over 100 photo illusts., maps, text illusts (many in colour). Elaborately decorated black cloth in silver, silver lettering, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of this scarce and invaluable work on the art of the subarctic Athapaskans in Western Canada and British Columbia from pre-Columbian period to present day, focusing on costumeornamentation, and a sophisticated quill tradition.