NY: Oxford University Press, 1941. First edition. Fine. First edition. Large 4to. (viii), 460pp. Original blue cloth, gilt spine titles, gilt title on upper board and with a design blocked in blind. Illustrated. Index. Covers the Silversmith's Art before the Conquest and for each period thereafter until 1936; also discusses..... More
London: Frederick Muller, 1956. Illustrated by Frederick T. Chapman. First English edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Illustrated by Frederick T. Chapman. Blue embossed paper over boards, gilt spine title. Pictorial endpapers. A fine, bright, as new copy. Colorful dustwrapper by Cuthbertson. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped. It has two small chips..... More
Santa Fé: Press of the Palace of the Governors, 1984. Illustrations by Andrew Burns. Limited edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. 77,(1)pp. Finely printed by hand on Rives paper by Pamela Smith. Introduction by David J. Weber. Bound by Priscilla Spitler in maroon Centennial book cloth, with spine title in silver and..... More
Santa Fe: Press at the Palace of the Governors, 2020. Limited edition. Wraps. Square 8vo. Unpaginated (28pp). Woodcut text by Baumann is followed by fifteen woodcut examples of Indian pottery. Finely printed letterpress from the original blocks at the Palace Press by Tom Leech and James Bourland. One of 145..... More
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (viii), 312pp. Map frontispiece of Eulalia Bourne's Arizona. Original printed cloth. A fine copy. Dustwrapper is similarly fine and not price-clipped. Reminiscences of the 1973 Woman of the Year who began teaching shortly after Arizona became a state in 1912..... More
Glorieta, NM: The Rio Grande Press, 1973. Hardcover. Facsimile of the 47th Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, but with a new preface and with 36 full color plates, reproductions from the original art in the Smithsonian Archives published here in color for the first time. Light gray cloth..... More
Los Angeles: California Department of Transportation, 1989. Stiff card wraps. Oblong 4to. 52pp. Heavy textured wraps. A special edition of 'Update' honoring the 50th anniversary of the Arroyo Seco Parkway, California's first freeway. With sections on the Harbor Transitway, Glenn Anderson Freeway, Vincent Thomas Bridge, as well as then-active projects..... More
Lawrence, Kansas: United States Indian Service, Harkell Institute, 1951. Hoke Denetsosie. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 149pp. Brick-colored cloth with the title printed in black on the spine and the title and a vignette in black on the upper board. The one volume edition of Clark's popular books containing: Little Herder..... More
Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishers, 1993. Limited edition. Hardcover. Golio. 139pp. Black cloth, silver titles on the spine and upper board. Illustrated in color throughout. Foreward by Roger G. Kennedy. Introduction by the Editor. Eighteen essays on individual afrtistsd, followed by a bibliography. One of 300 numbered copies signed by..... More
Cincinnati: Fox Moon Publications, 1997. Illustrated by the author. Limited edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Miniature volumes. 2¼ by 2¾ inches. Designed by Gabrielle Fox and finely printed in red and black letterpress at Larkspur Press. One of 100 copies; this is No, 82. Volume one contains text, illustrations, selected bibliography..... More
Not Published, (1880). First edition. Hardcover. Original cloth, gilt title. Cloth sunned to tan on spine, slight fading at top of front cover; waterspot. Born in Connecticut, Stephen Johnson Field was practicing law in New York when word of the Gold Rush arrived. He sailed to California in 1849, crossing..... More
Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2005. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thick large 4to. 746pp. Tan cloth, silver spine title. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is fine as well. This is the most comprehensive edition of documents related to Coronado's reconnaissance of the American Southwest available. It is a...... More
Mejico: J. Ojeda, 1839. Hardcover. [i-ii] iii-vii, 302, [2, index] pp. Small 8vo. Original full Mexican tree sheep, tan leather label, gilt, and spine ruled in gilt. Lightly rubbed, light dampstain on the foredge margin not affecting text, else a fine copy. Second printing after the first printing the year..... More
Los Angeles: Angelus Press, (1935). Softcover. Introduction by William S. Hart. Stiff textured wraps bound with a lariat. Slight scuffing, marginal stain on portrait. Folded pages, one torn along the top (no loss). A near fine copy. Prints Carr's remarks on the passing of Will Rogers. Inscribed on the ffep..... More
St. Paul: The Price-McGill Company, (1893). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vi,(7)-334pp. Dark green cloth, gilt titles on spine and upper board, as well as a vignette of an Indian shooting from behind a tree on the upper board. Illustrated with full page black and white drawings. War Whoop Series..... More
(Oakland): Peter Koch, 1984. Limited edition. Stiff card. Tall thin folio, 9½ by 19½ inches. Title and vignette on the first page. The back page is an essay by Glenn E. Humphreys. The inner pages contain the text of a letter from Ellery ordering books in 1856, and a list describing..... More
NY and Los Angeles: Angelina Book Concern, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece and 22 illustrations. Original cloth gilt title and vignette. Translated by Julius Behnke, Professor of Modern Languages, Occidental College, Los Angeles. With his printed photograph tipped-in, and his presentation inscription: 'Yours for progress / without end..... More
San Francisco: California Development Board, 1913. Broadside. 21 by 36¾ inches. Lithographed in color. Railroad lines and steamship lines are clearly shown. Text discusses the activities of the Development Board which was housed in the Ferry Building in San Francisco. This version seems to be the original version, copyright..... More
San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1942. Drawings by Frank Anthony Stanush. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi, 236. Reddish cloth printed in black. Dark pink endpapers. Photographic frontispiece. Illustrated. Index. Neat ownership name and date (1944) on the front pastedown. A fine copy. The dustwrapper has a clean split on the..... More
Philadelphia: Rice, Rutter & Co., 1860's. Early Edition. Hand-colored lithograph from an early octavo edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size approximately 7 by 10 inches, matted in an 11 x 14 inch mat. A fine copy with vibrant colors. Octavo editions..... More
Philadelphia: D. Rice and A. N. Hart, 1850's. Early Edition. Hand-colored lithograph from an early octavo edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size approximately 7 by 10 inches, matted in an 11 x 14 inch mat. A fine copy with vibrant colors..... More
Philadelphia: Rice and Clark, 1842. First edition. Hand-colored lithograph from the first folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size approximately 14-1/8 by 20 inches, matted in an 18 x 24 inch mat. Trace of binding adhesive along one edge , else..... More
Philadelphia: J. T. Bowen, 1850's. Early Edition. Hand-colored lithograph from an early octavo edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size approximately 7 by 10 inches, matted in an 11 x 14 inch mat. A fine copy with vibrant colors. Octavo editions published..... More
Philadelphia: D. Rice and A. N. Hart, 1850's. Early Edition. Hand-colored lithograph from an early octavo edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size approximately 7 by 10 inches, matted in an 11 x 14 inch mat. A fine copy with vibrant colors..... More
Philadelphia: Rice, Rutter & Co., 1860's. Early Edition. Hand-colored lithograph from an early octavo edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size approximately 7 by 10 inches, matted in an 11 x 14 inch mat. A fine copy with vibrant colors. Octavo editions..... More
