Hampton, VA: The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1916. First Edition. Full year of this influential African-American periodical published continuously from 1872-1939. Though nominally an alumni publication of the Hampton Institute, the magazine contained a wide variety of features on all aspects of African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Native American culture; contributors... More
Radford, VA: Commonwealth Press, 1977. First Edition. Small octavo. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 51pp; illus. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly worn dustwrapper with hand-written price on front flap. Uncommon memoir of African-American life in the small southwest Virginia... More
![Nez Perce Grammar [Inscribed & Signed]. Haruo AOKI.](/pictures/medium/31975.jpg?v=1529353676)
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970. First Edition. Large octavo (25.25cm.); original mustard printed card wrappers; xii,168pp.; map frontispiece, photographic illus. Some minor shelf wear to wrapper extremities, spine rather toned, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "For Diane / Best wishes / Haruo... More
New York: Council on Social Work Education, [1972]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers; ix,[1],83pp. Pencil scribble to upper wrapper, else Fine. Annotated bibliography. More
Ithaca: Ithaca House Books, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 73pp. Covers a bit age-toned at extremities, else a tight, Near Fine copy. The Native American author's first regularly-published book. More
![Navajo Taboos [Signed by Contributors]. Ernie BULOW, Tony HILLERMAN, Ernest FRANKLIN, text, foreword, illustrations.](/pictures/medium/33630.jpg?v=1529353736)
Gallup, NM: Buffalo Medicine Books, 1991. First Edition. Volume of carefully detailed Navajo taboos compiled by Bulow, with an introduction by best-selling mystery author Tony Hillerman and illustrations throughout by Ernest Franklin. First Printing. Octavo; rust-colored cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket;... More
![Heart of an Indian. A Gripping Story Based upon A Great American Truth [Inscribed Copy]. Robert E. CALLAHAN.](/pictures/medium/20149.jpg?v=1529353273)
New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock - The Grafton Press, 1927. First Edition. Romance of Oklahoma Indian life. Uncommon in jacket; this is presumably the "Autographed Edition" advertised on the jacket flap - though we find no other examples in commerce which include the autograph of Tsianina Redfeather (signed here simply... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1981]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket by Robert Giusti; 316pp. Minor edge wear, jacket spine a shade sunned, else Very Good or better. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1984]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket by Robert Giusti; 296pp. About Fine. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1977]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Robert Giusti; [2],316pp. Some foxing to top textblock edge, else Fine. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1971]. First Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket by Roger Hane; 317pp. Jacket rubbed with some chipping to spine crown, rear panel somewhat dampstained, spine a bit cocked. About Very Good overall. Continuation of the author's first book, The Teachings of... More
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1998. First Edition. Quarto (31cm x 26cm). Blue cloth boards (hardcover) with blindstamped title on cover and titling embossed in which on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 152pp; illus. Near Fine copy; gently bumped corner, else clean and tight. Very Good dustwrapper; shelf wear to extremities;... More
Garden City: Dougleday, Page & Co., 1913. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's brown cloth, color plate mounted to upper cover, gilt-lettered spine; [10],338pp.; frontispiece, text and full-page illus. throughout. Light soiling, corners gently bumped, else Very Good and sound. Novel set on a Hopi reservation in Arizona. HANNA 789; SMITH C-726. More
New York: Liveright Publishing, [1935]. First Trade Edition. Novel of a White River Apache and the murder of his wife at the hands of a white desperado. BAILEY 554, COAN, p. 196, & HANNA 809. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in blue and copper pictorial dust jacket, reddish-orange topstain; 318pp. Some... More
New York: Random House, [1937]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; 401pp. Jacket slightly chipped and toned along extremities and spine (slightly cocked), else Very Good or better. Corle's third work of fiction about Native Americans, this the story of a young Navaho... More
Edina, MN: Beaver's Pond Press, 2007. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Pictorial glazed boards (hardcover); no jacket (as issued); 177pp; illus. Fine, apparently unread copy, free of markings or detectable wear. More
![Dakota Uprising Victims: Gravestones & Stories [Signed]. Curtis A. DAHLIN.](/images/noimage.png)
Edina, MN: Beaver's Pond Press, 2007. First Edition. Photographic history of victims from the 1862 Dakota Uprising, presenting research the author gleaned from examining gravestones. First Printing. Quarto; glossy, photo-illustrated boards; 179,[1]pp; illus. Signed and dated by the author on the dedication page. Some trivial shelfwear to covers, else Fine. More
Faribault MN: by the Author, [1994]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Laminated pictorial boards (hardcover); vii,136+[22]pp; large folding map in rear pocket. Fine, apparently unread copy. Out of print. More
Bar Harbor: Robert Abbe Museum of Stone Age Antiquities, 1987. Reprint. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; 72pp text + 27 photographic plates (halftones). Mild external wear; text clean and unmarked; Very Good. Facsimile reprint of a work originally issued in 1932. More
![Jacklight [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]. Louise ERDRICH.](/pictures/medium/23470.jpg?v=1529353394)
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. First Edition. The National Book Award-winning author's first book, a collection of poems. First Printing, a trade paperback original. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated wrappers; x, 85pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Light wear to extremities, with faint upward curl to lower... More
San Jose: Muwekma Ohlone Indian Tribal Press, 1992. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial glossy card wrappers; 34pp. Fine copy. Originally written to comprise the ethnohistory chapter of a 1992 California Department of Transportation Report, "Archaeological Investigations at Ca-SCI-690, Tamien Station." Uncommon. More
La Cañada, CA: Chaco Press, [1988]. First Edition. Quarto (26.25cm.); original cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; unpaged; photographic frontispiece and 98 illus. Top textblock edge a hint foxed, else Fine. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label to front pastedown. Photo-essay on violence and... More
Rooseveltown, NY: Mohawk Nation / Akwesasne Notes, [n.d. but ca.early 1970's]. Attractive poster with a quote and portrait of Hunkpapa Lakota holy man Sitting Bull, who led his people during years of resistance to the U.S. government policies towards Native Americas. One of a series of posters issues by the..... More
Rooseveltown, NY: Mohawk Nation / Akwesasne Notes, [n.d. but ca.early 1970's]. Attractive poster with the following quote from Lame Deer imposed over the Edward S. Curtis photo titled "The Rush Gatherer - Arikara": "We must all see ourselves as part of this earth, not as an enemy from the outside..... More
![The Dark Wind [Signed]. Tony HILLERMAN.](/pictures/medium/33628.jpg?v=1529353736)
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1983. First U.K. Edition. Sharp copy of Hillerman's fifth novel featuring Navajo Tribal policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. First Impression. Octavo; red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [10],214pp. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Fine in a Fine... More
