Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Indian Picture Writing

Hofsinde, Robert (Gray-Wolf) · 1959

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New York, William Morrow & Co, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 248 pictographs taken from Native American picture-writing, and including material about exploit markings, symbols of past victories, and complete with an index. Several score black-and-whi...

Coyote Medicine: Lessons from Native American Healing

Mehl-Madrona, Lewis · 1997

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Scribner's, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and engaging memoir and pondering by a modern M.D. who wanted to improve his own models of healthcare in regards to problem patients by means of principles of Native American healing. Superio...

Tales from the Dena: Indian Stories from the Tanana, Koyukuk, & Yukon Rivers

De Laguna, Frederica, ed. · 1995

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, 1995. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Forty-one Alaskan Indian tales, first recorded in 1935, and gorgeously illustrated by Dale DeArmond. Edited by a consummate ethnologist and ethnographer, student of Franz Boas. Fin...

Sacajawea of the Shoshones

Emmons, Della Gould · 1943

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Portland, Oregon, Binfords & Mort, 1943. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fetching inscription at title page, to a future reader, the gift-givers marveling at the growing name of Sacajawea. Taped recto of title page are two black-and-white photographs,...

Sacajawea of the Shoshones

Emmons, Della Gould · 1943

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Portland, Oregon, Binfords & Mort, 1943. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author opposite title page, with a fetching inscription to a future reader, the author marveling at the growing name of Sacajawea. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound h...

The Enduring Navaho

Gilpin, Laura · 1968

$96.00 (€87.10 | £72.66 | ¥15,330)

Austin, Texas, University of Texas, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. The reviewer from American Anthropologist praised this book of superb photographs and portraits of individuals and family groups among the Navaho, noting that it conveyed a quality o...

Karuk Indian Myths

Harrington, John P. · 1932

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Washington, D.C., Bureau of American Ethnology, 1932. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin #107. Simple printed wraps, signed twice by the previous owner, toned interior, else clean and tight, stapled pamphlet, wi...

Columbia River Basketry: Gift of the Ancestors, Gift of the Earth

Schlick, Mary Dodds · 1994

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.53 | ¥12,136)

Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A fine and due homage to the history and practice of basket-weaving along the Columbia river in Oregon and Washington. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper. La...

American Indian Ceremonial Dances

Collier, John · 1972

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Bounty Books, 1972. . Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Dust jacket present, not price-c...

The Girl Who Married a Ghost, and Other Tales from the North American Indian

Curtis, Edward S; John Bierhorst, ed. · 1978

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, North Winds Press, a Division of Scholastic Magazines, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. The haunting tales in this anthology are drawn from one of the little known masterpieces of American indian folklore--the great collection of Indian narra...

Indians of the Montana

Tschopik, Harry, Jr. · 1952

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, American Museum of Natural History, 1952. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Good-looking, structurally sound copy in stapled, decorated wraps. Science Guide No. 135, from the Man and Nature Publications series. Previous owner says it's from the colle...

American Indian Persistence and Resurgence

Kroeber, Karl, ed. · 1994

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine Boundary 2 book, bound handsomely in dark blue cloth, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to cover and spine, edited by Karl Kroeber and with original and re...

Our Chiefs and Elders: Words and Photographs of Native Leaders

Neel, David · 1992

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, University of British Columbia Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not e...

Spirit Culture Photographs from the National Museum of the American Indian

Johnson, Tim, ed. · 1998

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Square 4to 9" - 11" tall. Edited by Tim Johnson and with lovely photographs provided by Janine Sarna Jones, with further contributions by Natasha Bonilla Martinez (photographs by Pamela Dew...

Esther Ross: Stillaguamish Champion

Ruby, Robert H. and John Arthur Brown · 2001

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A stellar biography graced by the Introduction by Alan Stay and Jay Miller and a Foreword by LaDonna Harris. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight b...

Across Time and Tundra: The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic

Ishmael Alunik, Eddie D. Kolausok and David Morrison · 2003

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- a...

Dohaschtida "I Will Not

Harders, Gustav; Alma Pingel Nitz, translator · 1958

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Milwaukee, Northwestern Publishing House, 1958. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Translated for the author by Alma Pingel Nitz from the original German, being a novel by a Lutheran Mission missionary built upon his work in the 19-teens among the Apach...

Lakota Healing: A Soul Comes Home

Ridomi, Marco, with Laura Caggione · 2010

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Barrytown, New York, Station Hill Press, 2010. . Softcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy bound in overlarge, near Folio size oblong format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-w...

Chumley's Post, a Story of the Pawnee Trail

Stoddard, William O. · 1896

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1896. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A gorgeously designed trade binding. Published by Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, in 1896, being a reprinting of the Second Edition, the first having been published in 1886. Sturdy, attractive...

Shem Ham & Japheth: The Papers of W.O. Tuggle, Comprising His Indian Diary Sketches & Observations, Myths and Washington Journal in the Territory & in the Capital, 1879-1882

Tuggle, W.O.; Eugene Current-Garcia, ed., with Dorothy B. Hatfield · 1973

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Charlotte, North Carolina, University of Georgia Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor un...