Indian Sign Language by William Tomkins, First Edition (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Near fine/none, used, illustrated stiff paper wraps, 106pp plus ads to rear. Interior clean, no marks, binding tight. Slight rubbing to wraps, no chips or tears, corners lightly rubbed.

Soft cover. F. 1969, First Edition, 106 pages. Soft covers. Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Booklet, stiff tan wraps, lettered/illus. in red and black. Slight handling wear, nearly as issued. Mild foxing to pages adjacent covers, otherwise clean interior. 112 pp., illus. 15th ed.: 1962. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. 1st Edition. Original pictorial cloth, 75 pages, illustrations, front inner hinge staples showing, Stamped, "Boy Scouts of America The American Indian Association INC, The American Library Association on the bottom corner of the title page, inscribed by the author.

First edition. Eighteenth printing. 9 3/4" x 6 1/2" in peach pictorial wrappers. 106 [6]pp. Introductory Notes. Charts. Illustrations. "Plains Indians from different tribes speaking different languages were nevertheless able to communicate facts and feelings of considerable complexity when they met. They used a language composed of gestures made almost entirely with the hands and fingers, probably the most highly developed gesture language to be found in any part of the world. With this book, you will find it simple to use this language, which the author learned in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, principally from Sioux Indians in Wyoming. Drawings and short descriptions make clear the proper positions and motions of the hands to convey the meaning of over 870 alphabetically arranged common words - hungry, camp, evening, angry, fire, laugh, owl, cat, many times, brave, cold, heart, rain, spotted, together, river, etc. The words are then used in sample sentences. There are also brief sections on the pictography and ideography of the Sioux and Ojibway tribes, and on smoke signals." Tanning to edges of wrappers and pages; 1" split to head of spine and 1/2" x 1" chip to rear wrapper along with light wear to the extremities.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First Edition. Original Wraps. Works include: Universal Indian Sign Language by William Tomkins, American Indian Souvenir Edition, Boy Scout World Jamboree, England, 1929. Sign Language among North American Indians by Garrick Mallery, 2001. Pb. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so, he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. "Due to volume and weight of these collections, a shipping surcharge may be calculated, upon packing. Any shipping cost increase will be submitted for approval before the order is processed.". Various varying states. Many lightly shelfworn, with elements of toning. Var pg. Some with bookplate pasted in. Signature on front wrappers.

Condition: Very good. Toned. First edition of a visual guide to Native American sign language, symbols, and pictographic word symbols of the Ojibway and Sioux Nations, self-published by the author and used by the Boy Scouts of America. Includes dozens of visual symbols and definitions, giving Boy Scouts the opportunity to learn more about Native American language and culture. Notes the differences between the Nations, but also conflates all of the diverse groups under the single term "Indian". This copy is notable for its provenance. It has been signed by its contemporary owner in both his given name (Ralph Hubbard) and his "Native American Name" ("Black Hawk"). Ralph "Doc" Hubbard (1886-1980) was a White man from East Aurora, New York who dedicated his life to preserving Native American culture in the form of children's books ("Queer Person", published in 1930, and "The Wolf Song", published in 1935). He also promoted Native American culture via touring dance troupes, and wrote a section in the 1927 Boy Scout Handbook on Native American handicraft. He founded a museum and heritage center with his personal collection of Native American artifacts at Wounded Knee that was burned to the ground by Native American activists from the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1973 "Wounded Knee Incident". An interesting chapter in Native American history; for more on this, see Thomas Grillot. Familiar in Many Shapes: A Historical (and Contemporary) Overview of Museums in Native American Country. Berose - Encyclopedie internationale des histoires de l'anthropologie, 2023. This copy has also been signed in the rear by a subsequent owner, the American historian Richard N. Current (1912-2012), a spcialist in Lincoln history. Blue ink stamp of Boy Scouts to title-page. Single vol. (9.75" by 6.5"), pp. 77, [3], in original illus. wrps depicting two Native Americans on horseback in the West. OCLC -1 (July 2024). N.B. the four-sided symbol on the lower cover is not a German Swastika, but a pre-WWII Navajo symbol of protection, healing, and good luck.