Edited Leo Simmons (6 results)

1942/1963/1970. North America, Native Americans. Yale University Press, 460p., good paperback but with pencil notations throughout plus foldout map stuck inside of "Hopi Country" 460p.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 0300002270. Trade Paperback. Later Printing. Reading copy only, with some margin notes and highlighting to the text, spine cock and heavy creasing to spine cover, some page corners slightly dogeared. Otherwise, tight, sound copy. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ,1964, First Modern Library Edition 1964 (Unstated). Back of Foxed DJ lists 7 Titles Short Stories of Chekhov Thru Poems, PLAYS OF PUSHKIN, Back Inner DJ flap Pre Zip Code Coupon VG+/GOOD+ . 4 7/8? x 7 1/4? 423 pages. Bright blue cloth hardcover (Toledano binding # 11). DJ VERSO IS Blank, Tight, square binding, bright gilt, sharp corners. Light crimping spine ends, small former owner stamp top half-title page. The first issue dust jacket shows light perimeter edgewear, light rubbing along the folds, short creases bottom spine, and moderate rubbing & soiling front & back panels. The top front flap is neatly price-clipped & bears a small former owner name. CREASES TO BTM Spine DJ, Mylar protected jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Fourth Printing, August, 1955. 461-page Orange-Cloth Hardcover. Black titles on spine. book tight, sound. with clean text. Minor nick to one corner edge of cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Orangw cloth, decorative spine and title. Quite worn with fraying along the edges of the binding. Inscribed by author.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Fifth Printing. 460pp. Duodecimo [21 cm] Light orange cloth. Very good/Very good. Short closed tear to head of jacket's front panel. Gentle age toning to spine of jacket. Inscribed by the auhor on the front free endsheet: "To Ernest and Nannette Bulow Don C Tala-yes-va Author of the Sun Chief book Oct 17, 1971." Rare Signed. Don C. Talayesva (1890-1985) was born and raised in the Hopi village of Old Oraibi until the age of ten. He then spent nearly ten years training at white government schools. At the age of twenty, Talayesva returned to Hopiland and readopted Hopi tribal customs. Leo W. Simmons was a Yale anthropologist who recorded Talayesva's autobiography. Ernie Bulow (1943-2021) was a sometime bookman whose interests and experiences extended to journalism, photography, Indian trading, writing, silversmithing, and teaching. After taking a degree in English in the early sixties he worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, living in Gallup and teaching English at Fort Wingate on the Navajo Reservation. Following receipt of a doctorate from the University of Utah, he returned to New Mexico, where he traded in Indian jewelry and Kachinas and opened a bookstore, among other activities. Signed.