Boston: For sale by Travelling Agents Through the United States, 1849. First Edition. Quite scarce pamphlet featuring two novellas, the first recounting the experiences of young Fanny Bell who becomes the companion of her aging Aunt Mercy. The latter story set in the wilds of the American southwest where a...... 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
New York: Benziger Brothers, 1924. First Edition. Octavo (20cm); dark red cloth, stamped in black; 349pp. Spine slightly sunned; minor edgewear and rubbing to boards. Textblock edges and preliminaries slightly toned, else Near Fine. Father Eugene Buechel was a Jesuit missionary who lived and worked with Sicangu and Oglala Lakota (Teton..... More
![Navajo Taboos [Signed by Contributors]. Ernie BULOW, Tony HILLERMAN, Ernest FRANKLIN, text,...](/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...](/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..... 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
![Recollections of the Early Settlement of the Wabash Valley [Cover title: Old Settlers]. Sandford...](/pictures/medium/44945.jpg?v=1562626491)
Lafayette, IN: Courier Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1860. First Edition. Slim octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, yellow glazed endpapers; 160pp. Ex-Library of the Union Theological Seminary with their internal markings, faint glue residue from previously removed shelf label, spine cloth a bit sunned, brief splitting..... More
Washington: Thomas McGill, 1860. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); brown publisher's cloth, decoratively stamped in blind on front/rear, gilt-stamped title on spine (faded); 294pp. Spine cocked; soil and handling wear to boards; some rubbing and fraying to leading corners and spine extremities; interiors foxed with brittle gutters and exposed signature threads..... More
![The Poet, the People, the Spirit [Ted Berrigan's Copy, Signed]. Edward DORN](/pictures/medium/24393.jpg?v=1564006032)
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1976. First Edition. Full text of a speech delivered by Dorn at the Berkeley Poetry Conference on 12 July, 1965. Slim octavo (22.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; [4],5-29,[3]pp. Ted Berrigan's copy, bearing his signature to upper margin of half-title page. Light wear to extremities, faint upward curl to right..... 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
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1978. Second Printing. Quarto (31cm x 23.5cm). Red cloth boards (hardcover) under black cloth spine with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 172pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf ear to extremities, else clean and tight. Very Good dustwrapper; shelf wear and chipping to..... 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
![Red and White: A Christmas Story [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]. Edward E. HALE](/pictures/medium/45364.jpg?v=1565385201)
Boston: J. Stilman Smith & Co., [1887]. First Edition. Novella written and published as "A Christmas Present to the Ten Times One Is Ten Clubs," religious clubs for children inspired by the author's journal of the same title. The action follows the exploits of Ezekiel Beers, whose father was killed..... 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
![The Fallen Man [Limited Edition, Signed]. Tony HILLERMAN](/pictures/medium/21532.jpg?v=1529353313)
New York: HarperCollins, 1996. First Edition. The author's twelfth book featuring Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Limited Issue, one of 300 numbered copies signed by the author. Octavo; beige cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in red foil on spine and front cover; publisher's decorative slipcase. Fine and unread, still..... More
