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  • RESERVATION BLUES. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    RESERVATION BLUES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this Native American poet and writer - the "mythic and magical tale of Coyote Springs, an all-Indian Catholic rock and roll band." Winner of The American Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp Dust jacket art by Wendell MInor. ISBN: 0-87113-5949.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82773
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  • TEN LITTLE INDIANS. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    TEN LITTLE INDIANS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Grove Press, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of nine short stories, funny, wise and memorable. INSCRIBED on the title page. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-17449.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a bit of shelfwear to the lower edge.)

    Book ID: 52180
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  • ONE STICK SONG. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    ONE STICK SONG.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, (2000.). SIGNED first edition - Alexie's fifth collection of poetry, SIGNED on the title page, 91 pp. ISBN: 1-882413-768.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 52299
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  • THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atlantic, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories by this young Spokane/Couer d'Alene Indian. Selected as one of the Granta 20 & New Yorker 20 best young American writers. His first work of fiction, basis of the movie "Smoke Signals." INSCRIBED and dated on the title page by the author. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-5485.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 73898
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  • Alexie, Sherman.
    INDIAN KILLER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A murderer is stalking and scalping white men in Seattle, and in retaliation hate crimes are being perpetrated against the Native American community. A disturbing portrait of the Indian man without a tribe. SIGNED by author. ISBN: 0-87113-652x.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 22072
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  • BLASPHEMY: New and Selected Stories. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    BLASPHEMY: New and Selected Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Grove Press, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects fifteen of his best stories along with sixteen new stories. A fantastic collection by this award-winning (National Book Award, Pen-Faulkner and more) Native American author. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 464 pp. ISBN: 978-0802120397.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 82775
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  • BLASPHEMY: New and Selected Stories. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    BLASPHEMY: New and Selected Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Grove Press, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects fifteen of his best stories along with sixteen new stories. A fantastic collection by this award-winning (National Book Award, Pen-Faulkner and more) Native American author. SIGNED on the title page. 464 pp. ISBN: 978-0802120397.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 63350
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  • TEN LITTLE INDIANS. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    TEN LITTLE INDIANS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Grove Press, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nine short stories, funny, wise and memorable. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-17449.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82774
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  • THE SUMMER OF BLACK WIDOWS. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    THE SUMMER OF BLACK WIDOWS.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 1996. SIGNED first edition - The fourth collection of poetry by this award-winning author, an enrolled Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian. SIGNED on the title page. 139 pp. ISBN: 1-882413-342.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 51937
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  • BLASPHEMY: New and Selected Stories. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    BLASPHEMY: New and Selected Stories.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Grove Press, (2012.). SIGNED first edition - Collects fifteen of his best stories along with sixteen new stories. A fantastic collection by this award-winning (National Book Award, Pen-Faulkner and more) Native American author.SIGNED on the title page. 464 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 55193
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  • Alexie, Sherman.
    THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Atlantic, 1993. SIGNED first edition - Collection of short stories by this young Spokane/Couer d'Alene Indian. Selected as one of the Granta 20 & New Yorker 20 best young American writers. His first work of fiction, basis of the movie "Smoke Signals." SIGNED by author.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 10669
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  • WAR DANCES. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    WAR DANCES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Grove Press, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories and poems, both humorous and passionate, by this National Book Award winning author. This book won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. SIGNED on the title page. 209 pp. ISBN: 978-0802119193.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 63160
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  • Alexie, Sherman.
    THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING: Stories and Poems.

    Edition: Later printing, a trade paperback.

    New York: Hanging Loose Press, 1992. SIGNED - Alexie's important first book, SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus. ISBN: 0-914610-007.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 25642
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  • YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME: A Memoir. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME: A Memoir.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2017). First edition - A very highly praised memoir by this award-winning writer - a "look at the complicated relationship between a remarkable mother and an equally remarkable son, set, mostly, in the Spokane Indian Reservation where Alexie spent his childhood. His whip-smart, sometimes cruel mother saved the family when she stopped drinking, but was inexplicably tough on her kids something Alexie traces back to mental illness, sexual assault, and the Indian experience of violence and oppression." Response to this book has been complicated by charges of sexual harrassment against Alexie, and he declined the Carnegie Medal. 417 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 72386
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  • Alexie, Sherman.
    RESERVATION BLUES.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Minerva, 1996. SIGNED first edition - Published as a trade paperback original in Great Britain. This copy is SIGNED by Alexie on the title page. An uncommon edition of this novel about blues great Robert Johnson arriving at the Spokane Reservation looking for relief from the deal he made with the devil. ISBN: 0-7493-95133.

    Condition: Near fine in wrappers (a cluster of small abraded spots on the front cover, possibly from a sticker being removed, light crease to tip of lower corner of front cover,otherwise a tight copy with no spine creasing.)

    Book ID: 26521
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  • RESERVATION BLUES. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    RESERVATION BLUES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this Native American poet and writer - the "mythic and magical tale of Coyote Springs, an all-Indian Catholic rock and roll band." Winner of The American Book Award. INSCRIBED on the title page with the word "peace" and dated in the year of publication. 306 pp Dust jacket art by Wendell MInor. ISBN: 0-87113-5949.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 73903
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  • Alexie, Sherman.
    THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atlantic, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories by this young Spokane/Couer d'Alene Indian. Selected as one of the Granta 20 & New Yorker 20 best young American writers. His first work of fiction, basis of the movie "Smoke Signals." SIGNED by author. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-5485.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket. (spine of dj sunned.)

    Book ID: 14865
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  • THE TOUGHEST INDIAN IN THE WORLD. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    THE TOUGHEST INDIAN IN THE WORLD.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of nine short stories, 'introducing us to the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature.' One review described these stories as 'lyrical, rebellious, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking.' SIGNED on the title page. 238 pp. Sticker on front cover of dust jacket announcing that Alexie had been selected by The New Yorker as one of the best fiction writers under 40. ISBN: 0-87113-8018.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 41372
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  • Alexie, Sherman.
    INDIAN KILLER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A murderer is stalking and scalping white men in Seattle, and in retaliation hate crimes are being perpetrated against the Native American community. A disturbing portrait of the Indian man without a tribe. SIGNED by author. ISBN: 0-87113-652x.

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dj.

    Book ID: 22071
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  • Alexie, Sherman.
    THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Atlantic, 1993. SIGNED first edition - Collection of short stories by this young Spokane/Couer d'Alene Indian. Selected as one of the Granta 20 & New Yorker 20 best young American writers. His first work of fiction, basis of the movie "Smoke Signals." SIGNED by author.

    Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (one corner bumped.)

    Book ID: 14864
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  • THE TOUGHEST INDIAN IN THE WORLD. by Alexie, Sherman.
    Alexie, Sherman.
    THE TOUGHEST INDIAN IN THE WORLD.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Grove Press, (2000.). SIGNED - A collection of nine short stories, 'introducing us to the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature.' One review described these stories as 'lyrical, rebellious, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking.' SIGNED on the title page. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-38004.

    Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (minor wear).

    Book ID: 62844
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  • SONG OF THE TURTLE: American Indian Literature, 1974-1994. by Allen, Paula Gunn
    Allen, Paula Gunn
    SONG OF THE TURTLE: American Indian Literature, 1974-1994.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ballantine, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A survey of two decades of American Indian literature which brings together the works of both well-known and established authors and emerging writers. The selections are drawn from many genres: memoirs, oral histories, short stories, novels. Edited and with an introduction by Allen. Among the contributors are Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, Diane Glancy, Linda Hogan, Dean Ing, Roxy Gordon, Martin Cruz Smith, Joy Harjo, Luci Tapihonso and more. Notes on the authors, supplementary readings. ix, 353 pp. ISBN: 0-345375254.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. Review copy with publisher's material laid in.

    Book ID: 81099
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  • SPIDER WOMAN'S GRANDDAUGHTERS: Traditional Tales And Contemporary Writing By Native American Women. by Allen, Paula Gunn, editor.
    Allen, Paula Gunn, editor.
    SPIDER WOMAN'S GRANDDAUGHTERS: Traditional Tales And Contemporary Writing By Native American Women.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Beacon Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories and sketches including anonymous traditional tales and others by writers such as Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Linda Hogan, Mary TallMountain and more. Edited and with an introduction by Paula Gunn Allen. Suggestions for further reading, glossary. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-8070-81000.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (sunning to spine of dj).

    Book ID: 61077
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  • HOME PLACES. Contemporary Native American Writing from Sun Tracks (Vol. 31) by [Anthology, signed] Evers, Larry. And, Zepeda, Ofelia., editors (JoyHarjo, N. Scott Momaday, Elizabeth Woody, Linda Hogan, Wendy Rose, Luci Tapahonso and others, contributors.)
    [Anthology, signed] Evers, Larry. And, Zepeda, Ofelia., editors (JoyHarjo, N. Scott Momaday, Elizabeth Woody, Linda Hogan, Wendy Rose, Luci Tapahonso and others, contributors.)
    HOME PLACES. Contemporary Native American Writing from Sun Tracks (Vol. 31)

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1995.). First edition - From the coverj: 'the creative wellspring of American Indian culture is well represented in this anthology, a compilation of stories, songs, poems and other writings taken from 25 years of Sun Tracks: An American Indian Literary Series.' ' Also includes contributions from 18 other writers, including N. Scott Momaday, Elizabeth Woody, Linda Hogan, Wendy Rose, Luci Tapahonso, Simon J. Ortiz, Nora Naranjo-Morse, Ofelia Zepeda, Felipe S. Molina and others. Includes a brief history of Sun Tracks and a checklist by Larry Evers covering all of the previous volumes in the series and notes on the contributors to this book. Published primarily as a trade paperback original, with a relatively small cloth issue. 97 pp. ISBN: 0-8165-15212.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 87822
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  • Begay, Shonto.
    NAVAJO: Visions and Voices Across the Mesa.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scholastic, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautiful book which combines twenty of Begay's paintings with his poetry. Includes an introduction by Begay in which he talks about living in two worlds, like many of the Dineh today. Boldly INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. Index to paintings. Large square format, 48 pp. ISBN: 0-590-461532.

    Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (minor edgewear to the dj.)

    Book ID: 62431
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  • WITHOUT RESERVATION: The Making of America's Most Powerful Indian Tribe and Foxwoods, the World's Largest Casino. by Benedict, Jeff.
    Benedict, Jeff.
    WITHOUT RESERVATION: The Making of America's Most Powerful Indian Tribe and Foxwoods, the World's Largest Casino.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Account of how the Mashantucket Pequot tribe of Connecticut which was penniless and nearly extinct in 1973 became the richest tribe when it convinced the U.S. Congress to give tribal status to the group. Maps, bibliography. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0193670.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 50717
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  • THE EDUCATION OF AMERICAN INDIANS: A Survey of the Literature. by Berry, Brewton.
    Berry, Brewton.
    THE EDUCATION OF AMERICAN INDIANS: A Survey of the Literature.

    Edition: Paperback.

    Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 1969. A "Committee Print" prepared for the Special Subcommittee on Indian Education of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate. Includes the complete 1968 report by Berry with a one page preface by Senator Ralph Yarborough, the Committee Chairman, which highlights not just how this report shows that we have failed in providing equal education opportunities to Native Americans, but also their higher child mortality rate. 36 pages of this report consists of a long list of references. 121 pp.

    Condition: Good overall in stapled paper covers - previous owner's name on front cover, some wear to edges, but contents clean. Uncommon.

    Book ID: 81604
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  • Bierhorst, John.
    A CRY FROM THE EARTH: Music of North American Indians.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Four Winds Press, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Although written for older children (Four Winds Press is a division of Scholastic Books) this is a fascinating and interesting book for everyone, as the differences between Indian music and Western music is carefully explained - as well as the differences among different groups of Indians.. Includes many songs from different Native American groups as well as sources, suggestions for futher listening and reading, and an index. Illustrated with many photographs. Oblong format, 113 pages.

    Condition: Fine in a very good+ dustjacket (some tiny chips to the edges of the dj.)

    Book ID: 13013
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  • Bird, Gloria
    FULL MOON ON THE RESERVATION

    Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.

    Greenfield Center, VT: Greenfield Review Press, 1993. First edition - Winner of the North American Native Authors First Book Award and the Decorah Award for Poetry.

    Condition: Just about fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 10018
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  • Blackman, Margaret B.
    DURING MY TIME: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida Women

    Edition: First printing.

    Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982. Hardcover first edition - The first life story of a Northwest Coast Indian woman. Based on more than 50 hours of tape recordings as Davidson recounts her life (born in 1896 she was one of the last women to undergo traditional puberty rites and an arranged marriage). Illustrated with photographs. 172 pp including index.

    Condition: VG/VG (gift inscription.)

    Book ID: 7721
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