Murphey Edith Allen (18 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint of 1958 edition. Solid VG trade paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition.

paperback, Condition: poor, Desert Printers, Inc., Palm Desert, Ca., c.1959, 2nd.prtg., 6"x9", staple-bound wraps, 72pp., drawings,good but quite musty so poor, $.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Rebound in Hardcover, with cover glued to front board and Utah map on inside front cover. No Library markings. A concise, classic ethnobotanical guide that documents how Native American tribes utilized indigenous flora across the American West and Intermountain regions. Originally published in 1959 by the Mendocino County Historical Society, the text serves as a direct, practical record of traditional ecological knowledge. Murphey spent 25 years studying and living alongside 11 different tribes while working as a range botanist for the U.S. Indian Service.

ed. paperback very good condition with a bit of wear.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good-. 4th Printing. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet covers have some lightish bumping, rubbing and wear. Both front and rear covers of the booklet have spots of ground-in dirt and spotting. The text pages are generally clean and bright, though the foredge of the text block has a patch of discoloration that has seeped onto the bottom corners of the first several pages. The booklet includes information on native plants (for California and Nevada) that can be used for food sources, basketry , beverages, medicines, ceremonies and magic, arms (bows and arrows) , dyes, tanning, hair, tepees and much more. The text also includes bits and pieces of native mythology, and other information. "Edith Van Allen Murphey (1879-1968) came to Mendocino County from New York via Berkeley in 1903. The young librarian-linguist homesteaded a wilderness plot at Sherwood where she befriended her Native neighbors. As a Covelo resident during the Great Depression, she acted in behalf of impoverished Native people in Round Valley. From 1925 to 1935 she lived with eleven tribes as the United State Indian Service's only range botanist. She spent the rest of her action-packed 89 1/2 years chronicling, collecting, advocating, & preserving Native American culture, from basketry to recipes. A self-taught ethno-botanist, Murphey compiled the Stockman's Pocketbook, A Manual of Poison Plants, and the book Indian Uses of Native Plants, published by the Mendocino County Historical Society, which is still in print. She died at home in Covelo. " (from Sojourn magazine Winter 1996-1997).

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 3 Rev Sub; 81 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Excellent condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SOFT COVER IN VERY GOOD++ CONDITION,1ST EDITION 3RD PRINTING.

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

Stapled Wraps. pp. viii, 81. 8vo. Illustrated stiff yellow card covers; pictorial and map endpapers. Black and white photographs, illustrations, drawings. Sections include: Basketry; Indian Foods; Famine Foods; Beverages; Feasts; Greens; Meat; Nuts; Medicinal Plants; Ceremonials and Magic; Tanning Hides; Medicinal Plants for Venereal Diseases; Hair, et al. A comprehensive section on medicinal use of plants for alleviating symptoms of colds, sore throats, eye infections; plants used to act as a blood coagulators; heart and tonic; kidney and bladder trouble; poultices; smallpox; wounds; rheumatism; sores and boils and many others. No detectable flaws; contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine. Scarce with no copies presently housed at LAC/BAC.