Search Results: Native American from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

[New York]: Time-Life Books, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo. Full brown blind-embossed calf with gilt lettering. xvi, 302pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations, marbled endpapers, sewn-in yellow silk page marker. Fine. Tight, handsome facsimile of the 1903 A.W. Bowen & Co. first edition. Part of this publisher's "Classics of the Old West" series. GRAFF 44. NEW HOWES A 166.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 477pp. Illustrations (some color). Fine/fine. An outstanding, pristiner than pristine first edition of this thick study, handsomely inscribed and signed by the preeminent historian of Native American issues (1915-2005) in blue ballpoint on front flyleaf: "To Elizabeth and Bob Malott / With good wishes, / Sincerely, / Alvin Josephy Jr." Robert Malott (1926-2018) was a noted Chicago business leader, CEO of FMC Corporation, Republican politico and philanthropist.

San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1954. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. vii, 216pp. Decorative endpapers. Scotch tape stains on front and rear flyleaves. First edition.

New York: Greenwich House, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. vii, 419pp. Decorations. Very good/very good. Slightest bit of minor jacket edgewear. First of this facsimile of the original 1922 first edition, tight and attractive. A compilation of writings about everyday Native American life.

Springfield: Illinois State Museum, 1968. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff red pictorial wrappers. 80pp. Numerous illustrations, tables, line drawings. Very good. Faint sunning to spine, else tight, clean and handsome. Second printing of this 1958 survey, the ninth title in the "Story of Illinois Series." Rather uncommon.

Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 2003. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 312pp. Map, illustrations. Fine/fine. Tight, handsome reprint of this 1960 study.

Springfield: Illinois State Museum, 1958. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff red pictorial wrappers. 76pp. Numerous illustrations, tables, line drawings. Very good. Spine lightly sunned, else tight and internally fine. Attractive first edition of the ninth title in the "Story of Illinois Series." Though not so marked, from the collection of Adlai E. Stevenson III (b. 1930), former U.S. senator from Illinois.

Pleasantville, NY: The Reader's Digest Association, 1978. Hardcover. 4to. Red and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 416pp. Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations (most color), maps. Fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. Wonderfully tight and attractive first edition of this heavily-illustrated survey.

Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xiii, 224pp. Frontispiece, map, illustrations. Fine/near fine. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Handsome first edition of this account of the Franciscan father who lived and worked as a missionary on the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico starting in 1916.

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1959. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. xxxv, 461pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, foldout map, illustrations. Very good. A volume in the "Lakeside Classics" series, this narrative ("Embracing Sketches of Montana and Salt Lake") was first published in Philadelphia in 1868.

Flagstaff: Museum of Northern Arizona, 1981. Paperback. 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. v, 52pp. Numerous color illustrations. Very good. Ownership name inkstamped on front and rear wrapper; several words underlined. Second, revised printing, tight and clean.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1976. Hardcover. Translation by Rachel Kendall Gordon. Small 4to. Yellow cloth spine with copper lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 314pp. Illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; circular blind-embossed ownership imprint on title page. A tight and handsome first edition of this chronicle of Engel's 12 years and 30,000 miles spent excavating and analyzing numerous pre-Columbian cities.

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1910. Hardcover. Small 4to. Olive green cloth with gilt spine lettering. vii, 116pp. Foldout map frontispiece, numerous illustrations and full-page plates. Near fine. A superb and tight first edition of Bulletin 37 of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology reports -- here a (to cite title page) "Report on Exploration Made in 1906-07 Under the Auspices of the Archaeological Institute of America."

Mew Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. Hardcover. Illustrations by the author. Small 4to. Grey cloth with brown lettering and pictorial stamping. vii, 216pp. Numerous line drawings. Very good. Faintest hint of binding wear only, else tight and internally fine; front flyleaf ownership signature. Quite nice first edition. RAMPAGING HERD 2007.

Pampa, TX: Pampa Print Shop, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth with red lettering, dust jacket. v, 449pp. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear, with sunned spine; faint binding edgewear, else internally fine. Quite nice and tight first edition of this in-depth study, inscribed and signed by the author in blue ballpoint on front flyleaf: "For / L.H. Geddes / With Best Wishes / Sincerely / F. Stanley." "F. Stanley" was the nom-de-plume of the mysterious Father Stanley Crocchiola (1908-96), a Catholic priest in Texas whose passion for writing history led him to author a prolific number of Western histories -- by one count 177, by another count 190. While some historians criticize him for factual errors, many others applaud his original research.

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903. Hardcover. Small 4to. Rebound in terra cotta cloth with gilt spine lettering. Pp. 279-358 (complete). Maps, numerous full-page plates (many color). Fine/very good. Newish binding is bright and superb, while text block shows mild age toning and occasional edgewear, with title page (only) soiled and edgeworn; ownership signature on front pastedown. Tight and nice first edition of this second portion (complete unto itself) of the "Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1901," the first portion which consisted on William Henry Holmes' "Flint Implements and Fossil Remains from a Sulphur Springs at Afton, Indian Territory" as well as other reports. The color plate images of Native American pottery are superb.

Tucson: University of Arizona, 1959. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 29pp. Illustrations. Very good. Some age toning to outer wrappers. Brief overview of this museum and its Native American holdings. From the private library of JOHN BEECHER (1904-80), social protest poet and fine press publisher -- who for a time ran the Rampart Press out of Arizona. On a 3" X 3" yellow Post-It Beecher's widow, artist Barbara Beecher (b. 1925), writes "General / Literary / Publications."

Phoenix: Arizona Highways, 1974. Paperback. 4to. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 48pp. Extensive illustrations (many color). Very good. Internally bright and fine, with outer wrappers only a tad edgeworn and rubbed. Handsome May 1974 (Vol. L, No. 5) issue of this well-known monthly, one of their "Special Edition" issues focusing on Native American pottery.

Reseda, CA: Mojave Books, 1982. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 151pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket rather edgeworn; rear endpaper a bit age toned. A tight, attractive first edition of this poetry collection about Native Americans, boldly signed and inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: "2/29/84 / To Lilly Tolpo, / with very special regards, / Donna Duesel de la Torriente," with her personal business card affixed beneath. (Lily Tolpo, 1917-2016, is a part Native American sculptor and wife of noted sculptor/painter Carl Tolpo, 1901-76). Tipped to the front pastedown is an 8½" X 11" single sheet typed press release, at the bottom of which de la Torriente pens a couple of lines. Laid in loose is a leaflet for this book and a second typed biographical sheet about her.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with silver spine lettering. xviii, 122pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map, floor plans. Very good. Bit of faint binding wear, else internally tight and fine. First edition, tight and attractive, of this well-known study of archaeological explorations, mainly using aerial views, of villages mostly along the Rio Grande -- with relevant autograph addition: Tipped to front pastedown is a First Day Cover bearing one of the four of the 1977 "Pueblo Art" 13-cent stamps that depict hand-thrown pots, boldly signed across the stamp in black fineline by its designer, renowned Native American artist Ford Ruthling (1933-2015). 6½" X 3½, postally cancelled in Santa Fe, New Mexico on 13 April 1977 and with "First Day of Issue" so stamped. Affixed at upper right is the "Acoma" stamp; cachet at left is a color reproduction of a portrait of an Acoma woman by American artist Lyle Tayson (1924-2014), and Tayson signs in black ballpoint at… Read More