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 about The Art of the Silversmith in Mexico 1519-1936: Volume I
London: Frederick Muller, 1956. 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 at the spine... More about White Falcon
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 about Tales of the Mountain Men
Santa Fé: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, 2018. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo accordion book. Finely printed on Arches Cover Cream. The text is set in Packard typeface, designed by Baumann's Chicago friend Oz Cooper. Six postcard designs printed form Baumann's original woodblocks in celebration of the... More about Gustave Baumann's Santa Fé
San Francisco: [printed by Louis Roesch], 1899. Hardcover. 8vo. (iv),450,(ii),xlviii pp. Contemporary half leather. Spine in 5 compartments with raised bands; gilt titles; pebble-grain maroon cloth boards; marbled endpapers. Three folding maps; two-sided frontispiece; illustrated chiefly with b&w photographs; text illustrations; folding charts. Published by the California Miner's Association for..... More about California Mines and Minerals
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 about Ranch Schoolteacher
New York: The Dial Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth spine printed in black; embossed paper over boards; tan endpapers. Spine lettering a little worn else this is a fine copy in a fin y, unclipped dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the half title. Basis for the movie. More about Jim Kane
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 about Zuñi Katsinas
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2012. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. Floral cloth spine, printed paper spine label, paper over boards, printed label on the upper board. Illustrated endpapers. One of 425 copies printed at The Artichoke Press, Mountain View. More about Paul Frenzeny's Chinatown Sketches: An Artist's Fascination with San Francisco's Chinese Quarter,...
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 about Little Navajo Herder
NY: Vision/Farrar, Straus & Co., (1963). Laurence Hoffman. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. (xii, 173)pp. Illustrated by H. Lawrence Hoffman. Blue hardbound printed in yellow with a drawing of San Xavier Mission on the upper board. Light rubbing at edge else a fine copy. Dustwrapper is not price-clipped; trace... More about Father Kino: Priest to the Pimas
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Four volumes. 8vo. Original green T-grain cloth, gilt spine titles Frontispiece in each volume and 12 additional plates. The rear pocket of volume 4 contains not just the one folding map called for, but an additional copy. A near fine set... More about Life, Letters and Travels of Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, S.J. 1801-1873. Missionary Labors and...
n.p. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, 1903. Designs by A. S. Covey. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (styled '15th thousand').12mo. 223 pp. Illus. from photographs and from drawings by A. S. Covey. Bibliography. Scarce publisher's binding of yellow cloth printed in black and red on the boards, duplicating... More about Indians of the Southwest
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 about Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches
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 about Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542
Flagstaff: The Northland Press, (1981). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Square 4to. 140pp. Index. Bibliography. Brown cloth, gilt spine title. Photographic endpaper. A near fine copy with only a trace of wear. The dustwrapper is price-clipped and has some light rubbingat the folds else is in very good condition. Signed... More about Of Earth and Little Rain: The Papago Indians
New Yorj: Columbia University Press, 1929. Louis Schellbach. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii,(1),208,(2)pp. Publisher's red cloth spine, printed paper bards in a design by the illustrator. Neat ownership name on the front pastedown dated 1929.A fine,bright copy sand seldom seen now in this condition. The dustwrapper is not..... More about Prairie Smoke
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1920. Hardcover. 4to. xvi, (2), 213, (1) pp. Tan buckram printed in dark red. and taupe, top edge gilt. 254 illustrations, some full page and in color. Light wear to the spine else a near fine copy. Howes J-43. More about Indian Blankets and Their Makers
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 about Through Apache Land
Spokane: John W. Graham & Co, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 280pp. Illustrated with full page plates. Finely bound in half tan morocco, brown leather lettering label, gilt; Cockerell marbled paper sides. Except for a creased margin on one of the plates (no loss) and occasional traces of soil to... More about The Conquest of the Coeur D'Alenes, Spokanes and Palouses: The Expeditions of Colonels E. J....
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 about Ca-Te-He-Cas-Sa, Principal Chief of the Shawanese (Catahecassa, or Black Hoof): Indian Tribes plate
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 about Ka-Na-Pi-Ma, an Ottawa Chief (Kanapima): Indian Tribes plate
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 about Ka-Ta-Wa-Be-Da, A Chippeway Chief
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 about Pa-She-Nine, a Chippewa Chief (Pashenine): Indian Tribes plate
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 about Pa-She-Pa-Haw, A Sauk Chief (Pashepahaw, or The Stabber): Indian Tribes plate
