Tucson: The Archeological Society, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 69 pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm]; Brown pebbled cloth with embossed title and illustration on front cover. Corners and edges are gently rubbed and bumped, with most wear at spine. Two of three staples have been removed from the text block, leaving..... More
Japan: 1997. Japanese edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Pictorially paper over boards. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated. The spine and boards show very minor edgewear. In the bright pictorial dust jacket with one light scratch to the front panel. Ernie Bulow's treatise on Navajo Taboos. More
Washington DC: The Smithsonian Institution, 1954. First edition. Paperback. 398pp. Thick octavo [23.5 cm] Tan and black printed wraps. Spine taped. Text block just beginning to pull away from the spine. Previous owner's name at head of first page. Text block cracked a couple of times. With fold out map..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 393pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue cloth over boards with decorative ink stamping in front board. Soiling to head of spine and front board. Scuffing to extremities. Top edge gilt. Leo Crane was a southwest author who spent most of his life..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 393pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue cloth over boards with decorative ink stamping on front board. Top edge gilt. Scuffing to extremities. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with light soiling, several small moisture stains, and a couple of small losses from the..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 259pp. Quarto [29 cm] Olive green cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles on the backstrip and front board. In the pictorial dust jacket, with only minor edge wear. Letter to the authors from Walter Littlemoon. Part of the..... More
Gallup, NM: Various, 1930s – 1960s. Ephemera. This lot, comprising 46 items, contains the following: 14 b&w Kodak photos (all measuring between 3.5" x 3.5" and 4" x 6"). 1 35mm photo negative strip (1.5" x 7.5") with 5 exposures; images of the Inter-Tribal Ceremonial Parade. 18 run of Official..... More
Saint Michaels, AZ: St. Michaels Press, 1950. First edition. Paperback. 372pp. Octavo [23cm]. Tan wraps, printed with title on spine and front cover. Sun toning and a touch of moisture damage to spine. Mildly soiled textblock edges. One fold-out color illustration has been subtly repaired with tape. Two volumes bound..... More
Saint Michaels, AZ: St. Michaels Press, 1950. First edition. Paperback. 372pp. Octavo [23cm]. Gray wraps, printed with title on spine and front cover. Subtle sun toning to spine. Small pen mark on verso of front wrap. "Woodard's Indian Arts" label on title page. Both color plates present in pristine condition..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1947. First edition. Paperback. 100pp. Octavo [23 cm] Tan printed wraps. There are several small stains in the top fore-edge corner of the front wrap. There is a previous owner's ink stamp on the first page. From the Introduction- "The material for the present..... More
![Item #55082 Pile of Little Indians [Stereoview]. John Karl Hillers, Jack](https://kensandersbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55082.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1731987566)
Washington D. C. U. S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountains, [1873]. Albumen photograph [11 cm x 15.5 cm] on a yellow/salmon mount [11.5 cm x 17.5 cm] with a purple printed paper label on the reverse. Good contrasts. "Number 18" from the "Indians of the Colorado Valley..... More
Las Vegas, NV: KC Publications, 1992. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 312pp. Small quarto [26 cm] Red cloth over boards with lettering and pictorial stamping in gilt on the backstrip and front board. Very trivial warping to the fore-edge of the front board. In the dust jacket, with subtle fading..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 159pp. Quarto [28.5cm]. Bound in red cloth, with title stamped in black on spine. Textblock a bit toned. Spine ends gently bumped, and spine a touch rolled. In a subtly faded dust jacket with a few small tears and creases at..... More
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1933. New Edition. Hardcover. 442; 458; 355pp. Thick royal octavos [24 cm] Navy blue cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and a blind stamped vignette on the front board. Top edge gilt; other edges deckled. 1/2" closed tear at head of backstrip..... More
![Item #71469 [Ute Bear Dance, Myton, Utah]. UT Myton, Ute, Indigenous American, RPPC, Real Photo...](https://kensandersbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/71469.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779312482)
[Utah and Colorado]: n.p., 1907. Postcard. Real photo postcard [3.5” x 5.5”] with divided back. Postally used; addressed (to Central City, CO) with an inscription in black ink, stamped (one cent Benjamin Franklin), and cancelled (Myton, UT, August 27, 1907). Light edge and corner wear, with some surface rubbing and..... More
Circa 1930s. RPPC. Image [9 cm x 13.5 cm] on mount [11 cm x 14.5 cm] Small abraded area on the reverse of mount. With the "State Sovereignty National Union" seal printed on the reverse. Celebrated annually now for over 100 years, “The Ceremonial” is an inter-tribal Native American and..... More
Unmounted photographs measuring 6 5/8 x 4 6/8" 28 photographs depicting Navajo life in the early 1950s. The photographs feature men in hats, women in flowing skirts, children, and babies. The images show Navajos tending to goats and sheep, riding on horses and in wagons (the most common means of..... More
Austin: The University of Texas, 1938. First edition. Paperback. Volume II only. 490pp. Small quarto [25.5 cm] Tan printed wraps. With soiling to the wraps, a forward slanting spine, and a small abraded area to the front wrap. Internally clean. The University of Texas Publication No. 3809. Bureau of Research..... More
Santa Fe, NM: Hazel Dreis Editions, 1947. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 155pp. Quarto [26.5 cm] Turquiose blue cloth over boards with the title and author in silver on the backstrip and front board. The extremities are moderately rubbed, the underlying boards are peeking through occasionally along the bottom edges of..... More
Santa Fe, NM: Hazel Dreis Editions, 1947. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 155pp. Quarto [26.5 cm] Turquiose blue cloth over boards with the title and author in silver on the backstrip and front board. Printed tissue-guards with the illustrations (frontispiece tissue-guard detached, but present). Barely perceptible toning to top edge of..... More
Niagara Falls, N.Y. C. Bierstadt. Stereoview [9 cm x 17 cm] Orange mount. No backstamp. Light wear. More
Hardcover. 511-594pp. Slim quarto [26 cm] Rebound in brown textured cloth with new endpapers. Lacking the title page. With 5 illustrated plates. A catalogue containing a descriptive enumeration of the archaeologic and ethnologic specimens collected in Arizona and New Mexico during the season of 1881. These collections were all obtained..... More