native americana (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Near Fine. Philadelphia 1953 first edition. American Philosophical Society. 4to wraps. Native Americana bibliography articles on pp. 578-644 written by William Nelson Fenton, George S Snyderman, Martha Chamion Randle and C F Voegelin with D H Hymes. Other articles in issue as well. Near Fine. no owner marks.

First Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers (softcover); 120pp; illus. Mild external dusting, else a tight, clean, and unmarked copy, Very Good or better. Includes 49 reproductions of works in the collection.

First American Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's decorated sand colored card wraps. 276pp. Clean and sharp, very light wear, a little toning to the spine panel; internally clean and fresh. A very good, clean copy indeed. An academic and scholarly analysis of the Navajo Red Ant chant, and the complexities, ritualised processes and branches of Native American healing rituals.

First Thus. Quarto. 28.5cm. Publisher's red faux leather titled and decorated in orange, pink and green foil to spine and front board. 412pp. Lightly bumped to spne ends and extremities, clean and striking; internally clean and fresh, bookplate to verso front flyleaf, with some neat pencil marginalia. A very good, handsome copy. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator, bibliophile and anthropologist, with his bookplate and discrete academic notes. A reprinting of the 1935 edition into accessible form, something Rio Grande excelled at in the 1970's, seeking out forgotten or neglected works on Native American history and culture and re-presenting them to the public.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First American Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's green cloth titled in red and maroon to the spine. Dustjacket. [xx]; 340pp. Very light wear, some minor bumping at spine ends, clean and tight; internally clean and fresh; in a bright dustjacket with some slight toning and shallow cosmetic wear to the upper edge. A very good, handsome copy. A scholarly examination of contemporary new discoveries regarding the Pueblo peoples viewed not just through the traditional archeological and anthropological lens, but also from the perspectives of ecological data, ethnolinguistics, ethnomusicology, and the importance of oral traditions in past cultures.

First Thus. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's cream colored rexine titled and decorated in red and green to spine and front board. [xxv]; 411pp. Very light wear and scuffing to sorners and spine ends, tight and strong; internally clean and fresh. A very good, handsome copy indeed. A reprint of the 1912 first edition in a new, more accessible format, very much in keeping with what Rio Grande was producing throughout the 1970's and early-80's. An accessible edition of Lumholtz's early anthropological studies around the Sonoran Desert. Illustrated throughout with folding maps tipped in at the rear of the volume.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First American Edition. Quarto. 21cm. Publisher's pale grey heavy grain cloth titled in dark grey to spine. Dustjacket. [9]; [10-212 paginated]; [12]. Some minor bumping and scuffing to corners and spine ends, and a little discoloration of the pale cloth around the extreme edges, tight and strong; internally clean and fresh, bookplate to front pastedown, lavishly illustrated throughout; in a strong, complete example of the white embossed dustjacket with some soiling and thumbing, and some visible toning of the spine panel and extremities. A very good copy of a book that falls prey to its design aesthetic. A cultural celebration of Inuit and Yupik peoples and the manner in which their almost constant struggles for survival and cultural security have shaped their societies, art, and cultures.

First Edition. Octavo. 26cm. Publisher's bright red cloth titld and decorated in yellow and dark grey to spine and front board. [xi]; 348pp. Light wear and bumping to spine ends, a little scuffing to the corners; internally clean and fresh. A very good, clean copy. A dense catalog of various land and territory claims being made by the Alaskan native American population after decades of mistreatment and exploitation by various governments and institutions. A set of maps detailing the various claim locations is present in a pocket to the rear of the volume. Not merely a list of grievances presented by the now defunct Alaskan Native Foundation, but also an analysis of the community and national benefits that would come from a more equitable and respectful territorial arrangement in the state. Of particular interest is the information that when Russia ceded Alaska to the US it did so after claiming the territory "By Right of Discovery" which meant that the land had the status of being largely unoccupied and with no significant culture present; the upshot of this piece of semantic colonialism being that neither Russia nor the US was under any obligation to support or protect the natives of the region, making the entire territory a ripe field for unchecked exploitation.

First Thus. Quarto. 28.5cm. Publisher's pale toffee colored boards titled and decorated to spine and front board in black and metallic red. 213pp. Some very light scuffing and soiling to the boards, with a little bumping to the extremities. Strong and solid, a very good copy. Internally clean. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. An invaluable repository of design and technique, reprinted from a virtually unobtainable 1927 work. 81361.

First Edition. First Printing. Two Volumes. Large Quarto. 22.5cm. Publisher's oatmeal colored heavy grain cloth titled in gilt to spines. Housed in a slipcase, as issued. [xl]; 683pp. [5].; [xiii]; 758pp. [pagination contiguous across both vols]. Both bindings bright and strong, with some light toning to the spines; internally clean, lavishly produced; in a clean strong slipcase with some loose threads in places and a little shelf soiling. A very good, clean copy indeed in its original slipcase. Father Powell is considered one of the leading historians of Native American peoples, founder of the St. Augustine Center for American Indians in Chicago, a researcher at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at the Newberry Library, and an Honorary Chief of the Northern Cheyenne Peoples. This mammoth work is essentially an historical biography of the Cheyenne over a critical 40 year period in the 19th century.

Zustand: Good. Boston May 28, 1735. J Draper. paginated 551-558. Appears to have been removed from larger binding but still bound together. Narrow tall 4to. wraps. Full title: "An act for the more effectual regulating the private Trade with the Eastern and Western Indians, and the preventing Abuses therein." Lightly toned and slight stains. Good plus. Guaranteed original. Pictures available on request.