Myths and Tales of the American Indians
New York: Indian Head Books, 1992. Hard Cover.
Jacket lightly toned. Page ridges lightly foxed.
386 pp. A survey of the myths of over forty different Native American tribes.
New York: Indian Head Books, 1992. Hard Cover.
Jacket lightly toned. Page ridges lightly foxed.
386 pp. A survey of the myths of over forty different Native American tribes.
London: Thames & Hudson, 1980. Enlarged Edition. Trade Paperback.
Two publisher stickers on rear cover, spine lightly creased and faded, ink name on half-title page.
288 pp. Includes 319 illustrations. The spread of Greek civilization through Europe, into Africa and the Near East began long before the Classical period, long.....
Topeka: Crane & Company, 1907. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Top edge of rear board faintly stained, bottom corner lightly bumped causing 1/2 inch tear to cloth revealing board beneath.
xii, 351 pp. 8vo. Howes C730. A firsthand account of life on the American plains, specifically treating conflict with.....
New York: Indian Head Books, 1991. Hard Cover.
Top page ridge lightly foxed, ink name on front paste-down endpaper.
322 pp. John C. Cremony's first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s, when he accompanied John R. Bartlett’s boundary commission surveying the United States-Mexican border.....
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Ink price on front jacket flap, jacket edges very lightly rubbed.
281 pp.THE legend of the Old West is so rich in universally appreciated rituals, that it can bloom at many different altitudes, from the exotic fantasies.....
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Laminate starting to peel, spine creased.
xvi, 345 pp. "The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains throughout the eighteenth century. But the near extinction of buffalo in the late nineteenth century brought dire poverty to the tribe.....
New York: R.V. Coleman, 1927. Read, A.B. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Small tear to spine head, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.
302 pp. Illustrated by A.B. Read. A history of social customs in Britain from 200 B.C. to A.D. 1926.
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. Sticker remains on rear cover.
223 pp. On December 12, 2014, the Education department presented Looking Back at Black Male, a public program to mark the twentieth anniversary of the exhibition Black Male: Representations of Masculinity.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1959. Grisha. Hard Cover.
Jacket edges lightly rubbed, jacket flaps clipped. Top page ridge faintly foxed.
260 pp. Here is an exciting account of the men who discovered and developed the area; of the rise of nationalism and the decline of colonialism; of history, politics.....
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Small tear atop jacket spine.
269 pp. An elegantly written introduction to this remarkable civilization. John S. Henderson explore the entire Maya cultural tradition, from the earliest races of settlement in the area through the period of the Spanish.....
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Wrapper edges worn, bottom corner of last three pages creased.
viii, 244 pp. A leading paleontologist provides a close-up look at the dinosaurs and how they lived, offering a sweeping account of their evolution, behavior, social structure, life.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 1st Printing. Large Softcover.
First printing. Scratch on rear cover, remainder mark.
239 pp. A look at the Tyrannosaurus Rex discusses the animal's speed, its warm-bloodedness, its dimensions and anatomy, and its gender differences, offering excavation photos and line drawings.
New York: Octagon Books, 1979. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. No jacket. Page ridges foxed, front free endpaper missing, marginalia.
512 pp. "After reading Levi-Strauss on South American myth it is quite certain that one will not be able to think again of these myths as entities apart from his analysis.....
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket spine base lightly bumped.
368 pp. Includes 220 illustrations, 8 in color. A feast of extraordinary theories and personalities centered around the mysterious standing stones of antiquity. John Michell tells the wonderful story of the reactions.....
New York: Pocket Books, 1974. 3rd Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
3rd printing. Faint toning to edge.
280 pp. Stories from a Lakota Sioux Elder trace the tribe's history from pre-colonial times through the present day.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 1982. Soft Cover.
Edge wear.
vi, 157 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. CONTENTS: Abstract; Introduction: Outline of Geology of the Anthracite Coal Basins of Pennsylvania; Age of Fossil Plants; Collecting Localities; Depository of Specimens; Acknowledgements; Description of Fossil Plants: Subphylum Lycopodiophyta; Family Lepidodendraceae; Family Sigillariaceae;.....
New York: Random House, 1994. 2nd Printing. Large Hardcover.
Second printing. Small tear atop front jacket, scratch on front jacket, scratch on left flap.
xvii, 267 pp. For dinophiles of all ages, Hunting Dinosaurs does for paleontology what Indiana Jones did for archaeology makes scientific adventures exciting and entertaining. The.....
New York: Osprey, 2006. Hook, Adam. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. An exceptional copy.
64 pp. Osprey's examination of the warring sides of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In 1861, Oklahoma (Indian Territory) was the recent home of the transported Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole). When.....
Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society, 1965. Kihn, W. Langdon; Herget, H.M.; Locke, Justin; Marden, Luis; Ross, Kip; Stewart, Richard H. 7th Printing. Hard Cover.
Seventh printing. Multiple tears to jacket edges, laminate starting, jacket reverse lightly foxed. Top page ridge foxed.
432 pp. Illustrated with full-color reproductions of 149 paintings.....
. American Anthropologist, 1930. Stapled Binding.
Wrappers faintly toned, small tear along bottom edge of last two pages.
Reprinted from American Anthropologist, Vol. 32, No. 1, January-March, 1930. Some Neglected Data Bearing on Cheyenne, Chippewa, and Dakota History.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Large Hardcover.
Jacket edges lightly toned.
304 pp. Sketches the history of paleontology, traces the study of dinosaurs, and summarizes what we have learned about their lives and the reason for their extinction.
Hilton, New York: Robert John Wood. Large Hardcover.
3 in OCLC. No jacket. A few minor surface tears on front board.
The portrait of Red Jacket, reduced to a line drawing, was painted in 1828 in Washington, D.C. by Charles Bird King, who was particularly famous for his Indian portraits.....