B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine has noticeable fading. The text pages are clean and bright. "Under the pseudonym T. D. Allen, Don B. And Terril Diener Allen (1908- ) wrote historical fiction and non-fiction about the West and Native Americans. They were best known for Doctor in Buckskin (1951) , based on the story of Marcus Whitman, a doctor and missionary in the Oregon territory; Troubled Border (1954) , about John McLoughlin, ... View More...
Cover Art; Signed by Rosana Webb, author of the poem Lyrics on the Red Man. This is a larger than trade sized booklet with self covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet covers have noticeable toning, especially the spine joints. The text pages are generally clean and bright. There are a couple of small chips to the edges of the text pages. Included are: The Early American Indian Builder by Eddie Wilson, Y-ail-mihth as told by Chief Kahlserton Sepass of Chilliwack, BC. Canada) , Jamyke, by Lone Eagle, Lyrics on the Red ... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some beginning rippling to the top front cover. There is some light toning to the edges and spine joints. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front inside cover. "Densmore began recording music officially for the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) in 1907. In her fifty-plus years of studying and preserving American Indian music, she collected thousands of recordings. Many of the... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping, and nicking to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "Adam Fortunate Eagle, once known as Adam Nordwall, is the trickster incarnate, skipping through swamps and glades where mere mortals fear to tread. It is hard to think of him as an elder - 60 years and counting - because in my last encounter with him we looted one of his relatives' fish-... View More...
Color Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the illustrator, with a short inscription, on the title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has one tiny hole to the top spine joint and some light bumping to the top front panel. "The land, the people, and the animals and their stories have inspired my mixed media paintings. I use water color, colored pencil, oil pastel, ceramic stucco on water co... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The tan paper covered boards have some generalized toning and spots of rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page. "Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition occurred between 1886 and 1894 in the American southwest. Sponsored by Mary Tileston Hemenway, a wealthy widow and philanthropist, it was initially led by Frank Hamilton Cushing, who was replaced in 1889 by Jesse ... View More...
B&W Illustrations; Coloring book. This is an oversized, thin paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Completely free of coloring. "The Navajo is the largest Indian tribe living in America today. They number some 140,000, with most of them living on the Navajo reservation located in the North East corner of Arizona, a small portion of South West Utah, and a part of Northwestern New Mexico." View More...
B&W Illustrations & Photographs & Charts; This is an oversized paperback book with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some light creasing to the top front corner of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. This book has tried to help memorialize some of the practices and traditions of the natives of the sierra foothills, including food, cooking, hunting, housing, and much more. "The Mono are a Native American people who traditionally live in the central Sierra Nevada, the Eastern Sierra (generall... View More...
B&W and Color Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small semi-closed edge tears, nicks and rubbed spots, especially to the spine ends. "An Old World tradition, a New World heritage: the result is ian exciting new dimension in needlecraft." View More...
This is an oversized paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing, along with a couple of small creases. The text pages are clean and bright. "The Tsimshian are an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Their communities are mostly in coastal British Columbia in Terrace and Prince Rupert, and Metlakatla, Alaska on Annette Island, the only reservation in Alaska. The Tsimshian estimate ... View More...
B&W and Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends, corners and spine joints have rubbing, bumping and edge wear. There are several spots of ground-in dirt to the covers, including an inch long white mark to the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "He graduated from Columbian University in 1861, then worked there for 23 years, as principal of the college's preparatory school (1861?84). He first became affiliated with the United States National Museum in 1872, working as a collaborator in ethnology. This in 1884 turned int... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small edge tears, nicks and tiny chips, along with rubbing to the black front panel. "While at UCLA, Wallis rubbed elbows with several members of the second wave of pioneers of Wycliffe Bible Translators. She became interested and eventually joined the organization, after serving on the editorial staff of King?s Bus... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some light edge wear and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. There is a small mostly closed edge tear to the top front edge of the dust jacket as well. This book was awarded the Southwest Book Award for 1984. "Pieces of White Shell is a journey to a largely unknown country, a land of the mind and spirit as well as earth and grass, where people live in intimacy with landscape, w... View More...
