powell father peter john (3 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. First edition of People of the Sacred Mountain by Father Peter John Powell. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Oblong octavo, [two volumes], xl, 683pp, [2], xiii, 693-1441pp. Full beige cloth, title in gilt on spines. Complete number line listing on copyright page, indicating first printing. Solid text blocks, faint creasing and foxing to spines. Numerous illustrations throughout. Housed in the publisher's matching slipcase, near fine with a few small stains. A very nice example of an important narrative of Native American tribes through the 19th century.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Oblong 4to. 2 Volumes, Creme cloth, xl, 683pp; 693-1441pp, illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photos, [5pp] map of the People's County. Light wear on tips. Fine in original slipcase, somewhat soiled and worn. The Sacred Mountain documents Events from Cheyenne oral traditions, ceremonial knowledge, warrior accounts, and family histories. Peter J. Powell (1928-2022) was an accomplished historian and scholar of the Plains Indians. According to the American Indian Health Service of Chicago, "on both the 1982 National Book Award in History and the Anisfield-Wolf Award in Race Relations. He began writing by kerosene lantern in Big Horn, WY, and finished both works at his scholarly home, the Newberry Library." He was President of the Foundation for the Preservation of American Indian Art and Culture, was a member of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs Society since 1964, was also an adopted member of the Apsáalooke Tribe, the Adopted Son of the late Tom Yellowtail noted Apsáalooke Holy Man and Sundance priest and his wife Susie Yellowtail [The Brinton Museum].

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.