Search Results: Ethnology & Anthropology from Gene W. Baade Books on the West

Berkeley: Univ of California, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 292pp. Illus. Bibliography. "... one of America's most distinguished anthropologists." Slight bump upper cover corner, else fine in pc dj with a dime-sized scrape on the back panel.

N. D.: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1974. Soft cover. Good. A college professor's photocopy bound in stiff 4to binder. 36pp printed on one side of 8" x 11" sheets. The author intended for this to be an essay published in a larger volume. A linguistic study relating to the language of the Blackfeet. Good. Scarce.

Anchorage: Alaska DNR, 1979. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good+. 1st printing. 4to printed yellow wraps. 106pp. Maps Appendices. Bibliography. fos/year on top of front cover. Physiography & Ecology, Native Inhabitants, Early Explorations, Missions at Holy Cross & Anvik, Mining Days in the Iditarod & Innoko Districts, Modern Era 1920 to Present. A most detailed study. Very light soiling. Vg+. Very scarce.

Hollywood: Privately published, 1935. Soft cover. Very Good. Signed & dated slip autographed by the famous comic actor Harold Lloyd to Mrs. J. P. Newell of Portland, Oregon. Slip, referencing Lloyd in Los Angeles and Hollywood, is dated 9/26--1935. ALONG WITH original stamped and canceled printed and typed envelope from "Harold Lloyd Corporation / Drawer 'L' / Hollywood, California." Canceled September 27, 1935 in Los Angeles. The third piece is just a news or magazine clipping photo of Lloyd from 1925's, The Freshman." Very good condition and collectable especially with original mailing envelope. What a fabulous and funny actor or performed many of his own stunts!

Harrisburg, NC: Privately Published, 1982. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 1st printing. 4to pictorial wraps with comb binding. 43pp. Illustrated with ample & elaborate drawings & photos. Covers Paleo Indian, Archaic, & Woodland Periods. Very scarce.

Santa Fe: Five Flower Press, 1992. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 1st printing. Oblong 4to pictorial wraps. 84pp. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of great & detailed ethnological & archaeological drawings & prints; also photos. The Archaic Period, Ohio Period, Mississippi Period, etc.. Fine.

Surrey & Blaine: Hancock House, 2016. First Edition. Soft cover. As New. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 204pp. Illus. References. Index. Bayanov is a Russian hominologists with decades of experience researching the wild man of the Caucasus. He is well-known in the world of researching creatures in eastern Europe and western Asia possibly related to the Sasquatch of North America. Part of this book takes in North American accounts and stories. The editors are experienced in Sasquatch research, writing, and publishing. Very slight bump, else fine, as new.

Edmonds, WA: Edmonds Art Commission Books, 1987. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st printing. Pictorial glossy wraps. 143pp. Illustrated with humorous drawings. A series of stories about Sasquatch. "Only a few of these stories claim to be true." Bound with red wrappers, the spine edge is a little faded; one tiny edge nick; else fine.

Wash. D.C.: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth & boards. 182pp. Bibliography. The author, an anthropologist, preferred to refer to Sasquatch as a symbolic mythical being, although he was given much evidence to the contrary regarding its materiality. As title suggests, larger (pardon the pun) issues are also considered. Fine in dj.

Detroit: B N Pub. Co, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Blue hardbound with gilt title. 320pp. Owner's inscription says that Benbow presented this book to him 'while on a visit to his home at Fort Madison, Iowa." This book is composed of dramatic vignettes (in play form, but briefly) of several scenes & subjects: Chouteau & Co. fur depot, New Orleans; the Palace of Napoleon; Sac & Fox Villages of Chief Wapello on the Mississippi; Fort Madison, Iowa; the Schooner Kenosha on the Great Lakes; the Mormon Temple Council Room in Nauvoo; a camp at Fort Bridger, Wyoming; a Sierra Nevada mountain valley; a Sioux Indian camp with Chief Red Cloud, etc.. Appendix One, "The 'Aryan Fallacy' Anthropological Truth", appears to make the point of the book an argument against the abuse of the term, "Aryan." Vg+ copy (no dj) of an unusual book that was apparently trying to speak to the growing Nazi Reich in Europe at the time. Rather scarce in the 1st edition.