Los Angeles: Wilshire Personal Movie Company, September 11, 1935. A-515. Black and white photograph [19.5 cm x 24 cm] (10" x 8") identified in pencil on the reverse with developer's dated hand stamp beneath. Strong contrasts. Lovely image of the Casa Blanca (White House) ruins at Canyon de Chelley of..... More
Santa Fe, NM: D.B. Chase, Photographer, (c.1885). Boudoir albumen [18.5 cm x 11.5 cm] cabinet card on a cream blind stamped mount [20 cm x 13 cm] The back contains a lengthy description of the town of Santa Fe with an advertisement for the Denver & Rio Grande. Near fine..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. First Edition. 411pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan cloth with the title on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. "Using innovative and standard archaeological techniques, combined with historical documents and Indian eyewitness accounts, Richard Allan Fox, Jr., vividly replays this battle in astonishing detail. Through bullets..... More
Saint Paul, MN: Haynes Picture Shops, (c.1885). Silver gelatin photograph [42 cm x 30 cm] under a gray mat and in an attractive modern wooden frame [64 cm x 51 cm] 'Haynes Yellowstone Park' blind stamped at the lower right corner. Haynes number manuscript on the reverse (27651). Brass plaque..... More
San Jose, CA: Harlan-Young Press, 1972. First Edition. 254pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Light blue cloth. Very good/Near fine. Jacket is price-clipped. Signed by the author on the title page. "In this vivid narrative, Ruth Hermann takes the reader in a scant one-hour drive from the glittering neon-lighted casinos and shops..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961. First Edition. 217pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth with the title in silver on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Jacket is price clipped. This was one of the first academic works on the tragedy known as Sand Creek. The Southern Cheyenne and Arapahoe..... More
Caldwell: Caxton Press, 1941. First Edition. 362pp. Octavo [24 cm] Burgundy cloth with gilt stamped title on the backstrip and gilt stamped illustration on the front board. Very good/Near fine. Minor nicking to extremities of the jacket. "No single Indian in American history embodies so completely the attributes of the..... More
Denver: Bradford Robinson, 1937. First Edition. 424pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Cream buckram with the title printed on the front board and backstrip. Brittle jacket is split and chipped at the extremities and heavily sun toned. The boards are age toned. The front free endsheet is loose and laid in. Inscribed..... More
Detroit: Detroit Photographic Company, 1899. Photochrome [23 cm x 17.5 cm] nicely matted and framed [41 cm x 35 cm] Image is bright and sharp. Bright view of two women (one seated/one standing) in front of a pueblo (Shongopovi?) with a pile of corn in the foreground. Launched as a...... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. First Edition. 705pp. Quarto [26 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Jacket is price clipped, otherwise near fine/near fine. The confrontations of the Indian and non-Indian is at the center of this history of the Nez Perce tribe and..... More
New York: John Day Company, 1972. 256pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Orange cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. "When 'Red Mother' appeared, it was perhaps the first record of the feminine side of Indian life, of the old days on the plains and in the..... More
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1958. First Edition. 382pp. Octavo [22 cm] Gray cloth with the title printed in red on the front board and backstrip. Fine/Fine. A very nice copy of the renowned historian and academic's first book, with thirteen full-page illustrations from Maynard Dixon Stewart (LeConte's son) and five..... More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1908. First Edition. 272pp. Octavo [21 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Very good. Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: "Mrs. E.F. Samuels - from - K.C. McBeth - Lapwai, Id. Feb. 20th 1913." Interesting..... More
[Salt Lake City]: (c.1940). Black and white silver print photograph [35 cm x 28 cm] (c.1950) Glue residue present on the reverse of image. J.H. McGibbeny (1891-1970) was born in Philadelphia, and he spent his early years in the eastern U.S. He later moved west and attended the University of..... More
[Salt Lake City]: (c.1940). Black and white silver print photograph [35 cm x 28 cm] (c.1950) Glue residue present on the reverse of image. J.H. McGibbeny (1891-1970) was born in Philadelphia, and he spent his early years in the eastern U.S. He later moved west and attended the University of..... More
Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1972. Limited Edition. 413pp. Quarto [26 cm] 1/2 dark green buckram over light green cloth. Near fine. Housed in a very good tan printed slipcase. This edition was limited to 1950 numbered copies, this is copy 918. "The book is more than another nineteenth-century travelogue; it..... More
Santa Barbara: Josef Muench Pictorial Photography, (c.1950). Silver gelatin photograph [25 cm x 20 cm] with a typed label taped to the reverse with photographer's hand stamp beneath. Strong contrasts. Josef Muench (1904-1998) photographed much of the southwest in the first half of the 20th century and his photos have..... More
[Delta, CO]: (c.1950-1960). Small collection fo material related to Chief Lone Star of Delta Colorado. Collection includes: - 2 Black and white photographs [24 cm x 18 cm] one contains a photographer's handstamp on the reverse: 'Edgar B. Smith, Photographers. Wichita, KS' (c.1950) - 3 RPPC [14 cm x 8.5 cm] by..... More
Tamaroa, IL: Farmer, (c.1910). Albumen photograph [14 cm x 10 cm] on a grained dark gray mount [20 cm x 15 cm] that is rubbed at the corners with a few minor creases to mount. Manuscript note in ink on the reverse. Image shows three women in dresses standing in..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. First Edition. 418pp. Quarto [26 cm] Black cloth with the title on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. From primary sources collected over thirty years, both textual and photographic, the author tells the story of the military subjugation of these Plains Indians and their removal..... More
Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, Incorporated, 1962. First Edition. 196pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] White buckram with the title in red on the backstrip and printed blood splatters on the front board. Black buckram slipcase with printed white a wraparound printed label. The backstrip is gently sunned. Stain to wraparound label on..... More
[Virginia City, NV?]: (c.1910). Albumen photograph [9 cm x 8.5 cm] on a pebbled tan mount [12.5 cm x 12.5 cm] that shows minor overall age toning. Manuscript note in pencil on the reverse. Image shows three Native American (Paiute/Western Shoshone) girls that are posed in front of fence. The..... More
Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1971. Third Printing. 91pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Cream printed wrappers. Very good. Minor age toning to extremities of covers. Short monograph on the Hopi of northern Arizona, that is illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970. Third Printing. 304pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan cloth with the title on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Mild rubbing to crown of jacket. Volume 51 in the 'Civilization of the American Indian.'. "Their story is told here from the earliest records to the present..... More
