Ewers John C Introduction (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1952/1993. North America, Native Americans. University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books. 112p., very good - fine paperback. 3/23.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Ex-lib. Has library markings, but is in a VG condition.

#531 of 2500 copies of the Gulf States Paper Corporation edition (per limitation provided upon title page). 152 pages. Hardcover: H 28.75cm x L 22cm. Dust jacket rubbed with a few surface scuffs and slight soiling; slight nicking at edges with short tear at rear panel's top left; front flap is not price-clipped. Dark olive cloth; slight flaking to otherwise bright gilt stamped spine lettering. Impression of removed rusty paper clip at tops of pages 100-101 with laid-in brochure "Indians of Alabama." Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket. With b/w frontispiece, Preface, Introduction by John C. Ewers, color and b/w illustrations, Notes, "Checklist of Extant Charles Bird King Indian Portraits," "Catalog of War Department Indian Gallery," Bibliography, and Index. {ArtShelf#2} ISBN 0874749433.…

HC. 400pp ISBN 0806110201 very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Second printing. Appear unread with stiff spine. Name on front end page, no other marks or writings, pages bright and clean, binding tight and sound. Carefully packaged and shipped in box. 112 pp ARC.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1953. North America, Native Americans. Monographs of the American Ethnological Society, XXI, Augustin Publisher, 112p., good cloth with sun faded spine. 3/23.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. (1976) 152 pp. Original olive green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Light foxing to edges of text block. DJ lightly rubbed w/ mild edge wear. Although the entire collection as destroyed by fire in 1865, King had made replicas of his most important subjects. The author has located more than sixty of these King portraits, many of which are published here in color for the first time, along with sixteen recently discovered charcoal sketches by King.…

[0-8032-5845-3] 1967. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. vi, [4], 106pp. 8vo. In 1832, the author observed the O-kee-pa-, a traditional ceremony of the Mandan people of the Upper Missouri. This is his account of same. 13 colour illustrations. Clean, bright, tight, copy; covers lightly rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition First Printing. Collection of drawings created by Howling Wolf, son of the Cheyenne Indian chief Eagle Head & a member of "the most unusual art colony in the history of Plains Indian art.composed solely of captives from the Indian Wars of the Southern Plains." Their "humane jailer" encouraged his captives to draw the lives they had enjoyed as free peoples of the plains--collected into a sketchbook, the art of Howling Wolf is reproduced here for the first time, in 63 pages, with an Introduction by John C. Ewers, ethnologist at the Smithsonian. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing from 1968, this nearly square hardcover (10.75" x 11.00") has bright red cloth-covered boards with a gilt design to front/gilt lettering to spine. Condition is Near Fine: exceptionally clean & bright, binding strong & straight, pages white & unmarked, but all show moderate toning, with heavier foxing to title page. The unclipped DJ (with orig. $14.00 price intact to front flap) is Good, with rubbing & small chips to extremities, spine fading; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping if ordered by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next day.…

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.