Native Americana (17 results)
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents
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Condition: Near Fine. Philadelphia 1953 first edition. American Philosophical Society. 4to wraps. Native Americana bibliography articles on pp. 578-644 written by William Nelson Fenton, George S Snyderman, Martha Chamion Randle and C F Voegelin with D H Hymes. Other articles in issue as well. Near Fine. no owner marks.
Published by The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 1952
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers (softcover); 120pp; illus. Mild external dusting, else a tight, clean, and unmarked copy, Very Good or better. Includes 49 reproductions of works in the collection.
Published by Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, Santa Fe, NM 1965
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst American Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's decorated sand colored card wraps. 276pp. Clean and sharp, very light wear, a little toning to the spine panel; internally clean and fresh. A very good, clean copy indeed. An academic and scholarly analysis of the Navajo Red Ant chant, and the complexities, ritualised processes… and branches of Native American healing rituals.
Published by Boston: Albert Colby, 1858. 1858
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Joe Maynard, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.Joe Maynard
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Octavo, 2 colored plates, 266pp, includes alphabet chart, publisher s red cloth decoratively stamped in blind and gilt (pages with soiling and a few spots, shaken, covers quite worn, gilt faded, horizontal cracks across spine and along joints, small chips, loss to extremities, else good).
Desert country. American folkways edited by Erskine Caldwell.
[SOUTHWESTERN AMERICANA -- NATIVE AMERICAN FOLKORE]. CORLE, Edwin.
Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1941]., New York: 1941
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.Zephyr Used & Rare Books
Contact seller5-star seller8vo. vii, 357, [1] pp. Illustrated title in red & black. Brick-red cloth, blue & gilt lettering on spine, gilt lozenge at lower right corner, w/ d.j. pictorial map cover art, cactus on spine (price-clipped), still NF/VG copy. First edition, stated, of this first title in the American Folkways series, published the same year Hani…el Long's Pinon Country. This volume explores the myths and legends of the Mojave Desert, and the American southwest which stretches form the Mexican border to Nevada ghost towns, and over to the Grand Canyon. Incorporated are the struggles and stories of the Yuma, Apache, Paiute, Hopi, Papago, Havasupai Indigenous Peoples, and other Western stories.
Published by Rio Grande Press, Glorieta, NM 1976
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Thus. Quarto. 28.5cm. Publisher's red faux leather titled and decorated in orange, pink and green foil to spine and front board. 412pp. Lightly bumped to spne ends and extremities, clean and striking; internally clean and fresh, bookplate to verso front flyleaf, with some neat pencil marginalia. A very good, handsome copy.… From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator, bibliophile and anthropologist, with his bookplate and discrete academic notes. A reprinting of the 1935 edition into accessible form, something Rio Grande excelled at in the 1970's, seeking out forgotten or neglected works on Native American history and culture and re-presenting them to the public.
Published by University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM 1972
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First American Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's green cloth titled in red and maroon to the spine. Dustjacket. [xx]; 340pp. Very light wear, some minor bumping at spine ends, clean and tight; internally clean and fresh; in a bright dustjacket with some slight toning and shallow cosmetic wear to the upper edge. A very good,… handsome copy. A scholarly examination of contemporary new discoveries regarding the Pueblo peoples viewed not just through the traditional archeological and anthropological lens, but also from the perspectives of ecological data, ethnolinguistics, ethnomusicology, and the importance of oral traditions in past cultures.
Published by Rio Grande Press, Glorieta, NM 1971
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Thus. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's cream colored rexine titled and decorated in red and green to spine and front board. [xxv]; 411pp. Very light wear and scuffing to sorners and spine ends, tight and strong; internally clean and fresh. A very good, handsome copy indeed. A reprint of the 1912 first edition in a new, more acc…essible format, very much in keeping with what Rio Grande was producing throughout the 1970's and early-80's. An accessible edition of Lumholtz's early anthropological studies around the Sonoran Desert. Illustrated throughout with folding maps tipped in at the rear of the volume.
Reminiscences of an old timer. A recital of the actual events, incidents, trials, hardships, vicissitudes, adventures, perils, and escapes of a pioneer, hunter, miner and scout of the Pacific Northwest. . . .
[WESTERN AMERICANA -- NATIVE AMERICANS & WASHINGTON TERRITORY]. HUNTER, Colonel George.
Published by Review & Herald,, Battle Creek, MI: 1889
- Hardcover
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.Zephyr Used & Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerThick 8vo. xxv, [1], 508 pp. Lithograph frontisp., 15 lithograph and woodcut-engraved plates. Pictorial red publisher's cloth, cover art image of author being named "Timus, White Chief of the Palouses," gilt decorative lettering on spine, decorated endpapers (minor shelfwear, rubbing, soiling to back cover, inner front hinge sta…rting), still VG- copy. Fourth edition of this expanded edition of the author's memoir detailing his life emigrating across the Oregon & California Trail in 1852 to Shasta City, gold mining, the 1853 Rogue River Indian War, including the Takelma, Shasta, and Applegate River People (Athabascan); details on the events leading to the Whitman Massacre, defending the Northwest against Confederate sympathizers, mail carrier, and later gold mining in the Okanagan/Kootenay Valley, and later as scout and translator for General O.O. Howard during the Nez Perce Indian War. Of particular interest in this later edition, is the inclusion of the detailed biographical supplement, and addresses for Oregon, Idaho, & Washington Territory Pioneers gathered together by Hubert Howe Bancroft, including occupations, and genealogical information. Howes, H811; Smith, 4891; Graff, 2018.
The river of the west. Life and adventure in the Rocky Mountains and Oregon; embracing events in the life-time of a mountain-man an d pioneer: with the early history of the North-Western slope, including an account of the fur traders, the Indian tribes, the overland immigration. . . .
[WESTERN AMERICANA -- FUR TRADE & NATIVE AMERICANS]. VICTOR, Frances Fuller.
Published by Columbian Book Co.,, Hartford, CT: 1871
- Hardcover
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.Zephyr Used & Rare Books
Contact seller5-star seller8vo. xxi, [1], [23]-602 pp., plus 4 pp. publisher's ads. Steel-engraved frontisp., with numerous woodcut engravings & illustrations. Plum-coloured publisher's cloth, gilt bear stamped on front cover, title lettering embossed in blind on spine (minor foxing to frontisp., minor sunning & wear to spine, edgewear, slight uniform int…erior toning), still a VG- copy. Second printing, of this informative work gathered from the author's first-hand interviews with early settlers and mountain men of the Pacific Northwest, including Joe Meek, William Henry Gray, and others. Much of the work was actually written in the house of noted Oregon pioneer & author, Belle W. Cooke who describes how she was "often reading the manuscript to my father and mother for comment." Victor herself notes after publication that some of the historical facts regarding Marcus Whitman, his efforts in the Oregon Country, and the massacre, orally related to her by Gray, needed to have been checked more carefully. Victor (d. 1902), was the primary author for the Bancroft histories of Oregon, Washington, and the Northwest Coast, as well as a noted author of poetry and literature. See Powers, History of Oregon Literature, pp. 282, 305-309, Graff, 4477 (1870 ed.).
Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1973
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First American Edition. Quarto. 21cm. Publisher's pale grey heavy grain cloth titled in dark grey to spine. Dustjacket. [9]; [10-212 paginated]; [12]. Some minor bumping and scuffing to corners and spine ends, and a little discoloration of the pale cloth around the extreme edges, tight and strong; internally clean and fresh,… bookplate to front pastedown, lavishly illustrated throughout; in a strong, complete example of the white embossed dustjacket with some soiling and thumbing, and some visible toning of the spine panel and extremities. A very good copy of a book that falls prey to its design aesthetic. A cultural celebration of Inuit and Yupik peoples and the manner in which their almost constant struggles for survival and cultural security have shaped their societies, art, and cultures.
More imagesPublished by John W. Shleppey], [Tulsa, OK 1950
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.Bartleby's Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerPrinted card, 4 x 6 ½ inches, verso printing "Sounds Represented by Vowels" (six lines) and "Consonant Sounds" (seven lines) and the publisher's stamp ("John W. Shleppey / 1911 E 17th Place / Tulsa 4, Okla." Shleppey (1901-1975) owned an advertising business in Tulsa before moving to Seattle where he opened a bookstore. OCLC loc…ates one copy (SMU). Very good.
Published by The Alaskan Native Foundation, Anchorage, Alaska 1976
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Octavo. 26cm. Publisher's bright red cloth titld and decorated in yellow and dark grey to spine and front board. [xi]; 348pp. Light wear and bumping to spine ends, a little scuffing to the corners; internally clean and fresh. A very good, clean copy. A dense catalog of various land and territory claims being made…by the Alaskan native American population after decades of mistreatment and exploitation by various governments and institutions. A set of maps detailing the various claim locations is present in a pocket to the rear of the volume. Not merely a list of grievances presented by the now defunct Alaskan Native Foundation, but also an analysis of the community and national benefits that would come from a more equitable and respectful territorial arrangement in the state. Of particular interest is the information that when Russia ceded Alaska to the US it did so after claiming the territory "By Right of Discovery" which meant that the land had the status of being largely unoccupied and with no significant culture present; the upshot of this piece of semantic colonialism being that neither Russia nor the US was under any obligation to support or protect the natives of the region, making the entire territory a ripe field for unchecked exploitation.
Published by Rio Grande Press, Glorieta, New Mexico 1970
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Thus. Quarto. 28.5cm. Publisher's pale toffee colored boards titled and decorated to spine and front board in black and metallic red. 213pp. Some very light scuffing and soiling to the boards, with a little bumping to the extremities. Strong and solid, a very good copy. Internally clean. Illustrated throughout in color and… black and white. An invaluable repository of design and technique, reprinted from a virtually unobtainable 1927 work. 81361.
Published by Harper & Row, San Francisco 1981
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. First Printing. Two Volumes. Large Quarto. 22.5cm. Publisher's oatmeal colored heavy grain cloth titled in gilt to spines. Housed in a slipcase, as issued. [xl]; 683pp. [5].; [xiii]; 758pp. [pagination contiguous across both vols]. Both bindings bright and strong, with some light toning to the spines; internally c…lean, lavishly produced; in a clean strong slipcase with some loose threads in places and a little shelf soiling. A very good, clean copy indeed in its original slipcase. Father Powell is considered one of the leading historians of Native American peoples, founder of the St. Augustine Center for American Indians in Chicago, a researcher at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at the Newberry Library, and an Honorary Chief of the Northern Cheyenne Peoples. This mammoth work is essentially an historical biography of the Cheyenne over a critical 40 year period in the 19th century.
More imagesMuster Roll for Company B of the First Battalion, Native Cavalry California Volunteers ["Californio Lancers"] - Aug. 31, 1865
[Mexican - Americana, California - Civil War - California Native Cavalry]
Published by Camp Low 1865
- Manuscript
Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
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Condition: Fine. The formation of the California Native Cavalry in 1863 marked a significant chapter in the state's history. Comprising primarily Mexican-American individuals, colloquially referred to as "native" Californians, the California Native Cavalry unit was formed 1863. Initially commanded by Maj. Andreas Pico, a disting…uished hero from the Mexican-American War, and later under Salvador Vallejo, the regiment drew its ranks from diverse backgrounds. Recruitment efforts began with vaqueros from southern California, expanding to include individuals from San José and San Francisco. The unit boasted a varied composition, encompassing not only Mexican-Americans but also Chilenos, California and Yaqui Indians, and even French legionnaires. Company "B," a contingent largely recruited from the northern part of the state, is reflected in the existing muster roll. The company assembled at Camp Low near San Juan Bautista in 1865, making a striking entrance into the town. Described as "gay and gallant Spanish lancaroes," the cavalrymen presented a formidable sight with lances in hand and flags flying, leaving a lasting impression on the townspeople who had never before encountered soldiers."The gay and gallant Spanish lancaroes [sic] came dashing through the town with the lances in their hand, a flag flying from each of them. I assure you that they presented a war like appearance, the people here had never seen a soldier in their lives Yes Sir." (letter, Maj. Michael O'Brien to Gov. Frederick Low, January 1865; quoted in Prezelski, "Lives of the Californio Lancers: the First Battalion of Native California Cavalry" in Journal of Arizona History, v.40, no.1 (Spring 1999). Under the command of Capt. Porfirio Jimeno, Company B swiftly engaged in a critical mission: dismantling the notorious Mason-Henry Gang that had terrorized the San Juan region in the preceding months. Despite successfully wounding John Mason in early April 1865, the gang persisted for another month until Mason met his demise at the hands of a miner he sought to kidnap. However, Company B faced challenges, including low morale and a high rate of desertions, with over 40 men leaving the company in 1865 alone. Transferred to Tubac, Arizona Territory, to confront the Apaches, the company encountered further desertions along the way. The muster roll, listing only twelve soldiers alongside Capt. Porfirio Jimeno, reflects this tumultuous period. Overall the muster roll provides scarce documentation of the role of Mexican-Americans in the Civil War, with few other examples in the trade or institutionally. Original partially printed document, 26cm x 77cm. Printed on both sides of the sheet, completed in manuscript. Darkening at folds from old tape repairs; partial splits to folds and extremities; complete and quite Good. Docketed verso, signed in ink by Lieutenant M[organ?] Owen. Lists twelve enlisted soldiers, most with Spanish surnames (two with French surnames).
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good. Boston May 28, 1735. J Draper. paginated 551-558. Appears to have been removed from larger binding but still bound together. Narrow tall 4to. wraps. Full title: "An act for the more effectual regulating the private Trade with the Eastern and Western Indians, and the preventing Abuses therein." Lightly toned and…slight stains. Good plus. Guaranteed original. Pictures available on request.
