Native American from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

N.p.: N.p., 1936. Hardcover. 12mo. Tan paper over boards with brown lettering. 62pp. Near fine. Tight and internally fine, with single chip at head of spine. Apparent first edition of this fictionalized telling of an early colonial Floridian Native American love story, which title page notes as "Time April 15, 1528 to May 25, 1539." Tipped to front flyleaf… Read more about this item

Yankton, SD: The Pioneer Press, 1938. Hardcover. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xviii, 264pp. Near fine. Most handsome and tight later facsimile reprint of this pioneering dictionary by the American missionary and writer (1835-1917) who first published it as "An English-Dakota School Dictionary: Wa'sicun Qu Dakota Ieska Wowapi" in 1886 and then in this much-lengthened two-column format… Read more about this item

New York: Aperture Book, 1972. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth with red lettering, pictorial dust jacket. (Ca. 75pp). Frontispiece, extensive full-page illustrations. Fine/near fine. Jacket spine faintly sunned. This tight and attractive first edition highlights the famous photog's best Native American images.

New York: Aperture Book, 1972. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth with red lettering, pictorial dust jacket. (Ca. 75pp). Frontispiece, extensive full-page illustrations. Fine/near fine. Superb, tight and bright first edition of this slim selection of the famous photog's best Native American images.

London: New English Library, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 381pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine/fine. Superbly bright and tight first British edition.

New York: Carlton & Porter, 1858. Hardcover. 12mo. Green blind-embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering and pictorial stamping (rebacked with original spine laid down). 290pp, 2pp. Frontispiece, map, 14 wood engravings. Very good. Binding is a bit edgeworn and rubbed, though ornate spine gilt still bright; new endpapers (except front pastedown); text block tight and nice, though moderately age… Read more about this item

Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xxvi, 286pp. Illustrations. Fine/very good. Jacket spine mildly sunned, with bit of wear at jacket spine head/tail; front pastedown ownership signature. Handsome, tight reprint edition of this classic study first published by Knopf in 1931.

Cambridge: Harvard University, 2006. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with copper lettering and brown paper over boards. xxi, 363pp, (ca. 100pp). Line drawings, tables, floor plans, full-page color plates (2 foldouts). Near fine. Quite tight and handsome second printing of this facsimile reprint of the 1952 issue of Volume 37 of the Papers of the Peabody Museum of… Read more about this item

Glorieto, NM: The Rio Grande Press, Inc, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pale green cloth withred, green, and copper metallic lettering and decorative stamping. (9pp), (5pp), v-xx, 203pp. Illustrations, map. Near fine. Front pastedown 1993 ownership signature. Tight and nice first of this facsimile reprint of the study first published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1912.

New York: Thames & Hudson, 2014. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. All edges gilt. Extensive illustrations (many color), maps, pictorial endpapers. Fine/fine. Inner flyleaf ownership signature. Pristine first edition of this in-depth study of the religious practices and "striking accoutrements of shamanism" of the peoples of Siberia, the Arctic, Alaska and… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980. Hardcover. Small 4to. Mustard cloth with black spine lettering and decoration, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 95pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/near fine. Front pastedown ownership signature. Superb and tight first edition of this fictionalized tale of real-life Hopi Indian boy Dawa-Wufto, a.k.a. Hubert Honanie, with provocative woodcuts by Anne Siberell.

Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1991. Hardcover. Edited by Frederica de Laguna. Biography by Jean Low. 4to. Tan blind-embossed cloth with copper spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xl, 488pp. Extensive illustrations, line drawings, floor plans, map endpapers. Fine/fine. Front pastedown ownership signature. Immnaculate first edition of number 70 in the "Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History" series,… Read more about this item

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xx, 200pp. Frontispiece, extensive illustrations. Fine/fine. First edition -- a tight and pristine copy of this collection of Native American photographer Marmon's black-and-white images and his account of the Laguna people.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with ivory spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 392pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/fine. Superbly tight and bright first edition.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1966. Hardcover. Small 4to. Dark grey cloth with silver/copper lettering, pictorial dust jackets. xiv, 530pp; xiv, 559pp. Extensive line drawings, maps, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Quite minor jacket edgewear only. Handsome and tight complete set of this definitive reference. Volume I is a third printing, Volume II a first edition.

Tucson: Arizona State Museum, 2001. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff tan wrappers. xvi, 373pp. Extensive maps and tables. Fine. Ownership signature inside front wrapper. Perfect, pristine first edition of number 193 in the "Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series," a remarkably thorough, in-depth analysis of a settlement dating back to the 13th century.

[New York]: Time-Life Books, 1982. Hardcover. 8vo. Full brown blind-embossed calf with gilt lettering. 498pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece, decorations, marbled endpapers, sewn-in yellow silk page marker. Very good. Very mildest of edgewear. Tight, handsome facsimile of the scarce 1894 Pacific Tree and Vine Co. first edition. Part of this publisher's "Classics of the Old West" series. GRAFF 2670.… Read more about this item

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1960. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with black lettering, dust jacket. viii, 132pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, line drawings, map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Age toning to rear panel of mildly edgeworn jacket; inner flyleaf ownership signature. Tight and nice first edition of this fascinating archeological study of the Sinagua Indians, residents of northern Arizona… Read more about this item

Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishers, 1999. Hardcover. Foreword by Regis Pecos. Preface by Joe S. Sando. 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 263pp. Color frontispiece, extensive color illustrations, map endpapers. Fine/near fine. Ownership signature on inner flyleaf; jacket spine ever-so-faintly sunned. Handsome and tight first edition of this lavishly-illustrated profile of nineteen tiny New Mexico… Read more about this item

Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 1999. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 336pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine/fine. Front pastedown ownership signature. Pristine first edition.