New York: Hastings House, [1960]. Hardcover. 8vo. Burnt sienna cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. x, 424pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight and attractive 25th anniversary reprint edition of Sandoz's best-known work, the 1935 biography "of her amazing pioneer father." Choice autograph..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1969]. Hardcover. Edited by E.R. Hagemann. Small 4to. Brown and blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 355pp. Color frontispiece, illustrations, 6 maps. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight and quite attractive first edition. Sanford served as a Union cavalry..... More
Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books, [1993]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 312pp. Numerous illustrations, maps. Fine/near fine. Handsome, tight copy of this volume in the "Great Campaigns Series" -- book club edition. More
Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1853. Hardcover. Small 4to. Dark green blind-embossed cloth with elaborate gilt spine lettering and decorations. v, 495pp. Hand-colored frontispiece engraving, several full-page and small illustrations. Very good. Binding edgeworn and rubbed; occasional spotting and foxing to some pages, notably preliminary leaves; while most text leaves are..... More
New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1934. Hardcover. Small 4to. Orange cloth with black lettering and decoration. xiii, 111pp. Line drawings, music notations. Very good. Faint binding edgewear; light age toning to pp. 66-67 from long-ago newsprint contact. Tight and attractive first edition of this how-to of a dozen ancient..... More
Des Moines, IA: Wallace-Homestead Book Co., [1971]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black cloth with yellow lettering and pictorial stamping. 386pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Much, much later facsimile reprint of one of the most famed of all Indian captivity narratives, first published in Des Moines in 1885. The Spirit Lake Massacre was..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1997]. Hardcover. Edited by Edwin R. Sweeney. 8vo. Brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xxiii, 179pp. Illustrations, map. Fine/fine. A perfectly pristine book club edition. More
N.p.: Charles E. Merrill Co., 1947. 8vo. Stiff blue pictorial wrappers. 32pp. Illustrations. Very good. Revised edition -- a mild ex-library copy, with very few markings. More
Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1982. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff wrappers. ix, 202pp. Maps, tables. Very good. Owner's name inked out inside front cover. Paper No. 81 of the National Museum of Man Mercury Series. More
Springfield: The Illinois State Historical Society, 1962. Hardcover. Edited by Clyde C. Walton. Small 4to. Blue and orange cloth. v, 329pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. First edition, with printed transmittal slip laid in. Collection of articles by this Illinois historian/archaeologist, with a biographical essay by Phyllis E. Connolly and appraisal of..... More
Springfield: The Illinois State Historical Society, 1962. Hardcover. Edited by Clyde C. Walton. Small 4to. Blue and orange cloth with gilt spine lettering. v, 329pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. First edition, tight and nice, of this collection of articles by this influential Illinois historian and archaeologist, with a biographical essay by..... More
Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1917. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering, rules and medallion. xxv, 188pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, foldout map. Near fine. Faintest of edgewear. Tight, attractive copy of this early "Lakeside Classic," the annual keepsake given by..... More
Cambridge: Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, 1913. Hardcover. Folio. Burgundy cloth with black calf spine label lettered in gilt. xxiii, 85pp. Numerous line drawings, illustrations, foldout chart, foldout map. Very good. Mildest bit of edgewear only -- overall tight and clean and nice. A sharp first edition of..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1994. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 180pp. Near fine/near fine. Attractive first edition. More
Phoenix: Arizona Highways, 1974. Paperback. 4to. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 48pp. Extensive illustrations (many color). Very good. Internally bright and fine, with outer wrappers only a tad edgeworn and rubbed. Handsome May 1974 (Vol. L, No. 5) issue of this well-known monthly, one of their "Special Edition" issues focusing on Native..... More
Pampa, TX: Pampa Print Shop, [1962]. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth with red lettering, dust jacket. v, 449pp. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear, with sunned spine; faint binding edgewear, else internally fine. Quite nice and tight first edition of this in-depth study, inscribed and signed by the author in blue..... More
Fort Atkinson, WI: William Starke, [1971]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 74pp. Illustrations, map. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear tyo wrappers. First edition -- tight, attractive -- of this stage play version of the Black Hawk War. More
New York: Dover Publications, 1963. Paperback. Two volumes. 8vo. Stiff glazed orange pictorial wrappers. xiv, 303pp; xvi, 336pp. Numerous illustrations (one foldout). Very good. Minor shelfwear. First of this modern reprint edition, tight and attractive. More
Madison: Wisconsin House, Ltd., 1972. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, dust jacket. Map endpapers, illustrations. Very good/very good. First edition. Fictional story based upon the history of Wisconsin's Menomini Indians. More
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1955. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey and brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 432pp. Color frontispiece, extensive illustrations (many color). Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and rubbing. A third printing, tight and attractive, of this popular overview. More
Albany: J. Munsell, 1866. Hardcover. With a memoir of the author by his son. Small 4to. Green cloth. viii, 509pp. Frontispiece, 4 engravings. Good. Minor foxing to first few pages; ownership signatures on inner front and inner rear flyleaves; binding a bit edgeworn, with both inner hinges delicate. Second edition..... More
Dallas: Royal Publishing Co.. [1963]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Light blue cloth with dark blue lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 227pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn and a bit age toned. A tight and nice first edition of this account of a long-lived Mormon missionary (1870-1969) among Native Americans. More
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, [1969]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown blind-embossed cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 211pp. Extensive color illustrations, maps, pictorial endpapers. Fine/very good. Tight and nice first edition. More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1911. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. vii, 387pp. Color foldout frontispiece map, illustrations. Very good. Spine gilt heavily rubbed, else tight, clean and internally near fine. A handsome first edition of Bulletin 43 of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology..... More