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  • Erdrich, Louise.
    TRACKS.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Holt, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page by Erdrich. Although this is the third in the cycle of novels begun with "Love Medicine," it is set earlier in time - in North Dakota in the early 1900's. . 228 pp. Jacket illustration, Bear Dancer, is by Frank LaPena of Sacramento, CA. ISBN: 0-8050-08950.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (some signs of shelfwear on lower edge.)

    Book ID: 17477
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  • Erdrich, Louise.
    TRACKS.

    Edition: Later printing.

    New York: Holt, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Although this is the third in the cycle of novels begun with "Love Medicine," it is set earlier in time - in North Dakota in the early 1900's. SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp. Jacket illustration, Bear Dancer, is by Frank LaPena of Sacramento, CA. ISBN: 0-8050-08950.

    Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages.)

    Book ID: 18535
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  • LAROSE. by Erdrich, Louise.
    Erdrich, Louise.
    LAROSE.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Little Brown / Corsair, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which opens with a tragic accident - a man shoots the 5 year old son of his closest friend - and includes a demand for justice and a profound act of atonement with its roots in indigenous culture. Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Award for Fiction. 372 pp. ISBN: 978-1472151865.

    Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 83067
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  • TRACKS. by Erdrich, Louise.
    Erdrich, Louise.
    TRACKS.

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Although this is the third in the cycle of novels begun with "Love Medicine," it is set earlier in time - in North Dakota in the early 1900's. SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp. Jacket illustration, Bear Dancer, is by Frank LaPena of Sacramento, CA. ISBN: 0-8050-08950.

    Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages.)

    Book ID: 55246
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  • FOUR SOULS. by Erdrich, Louise.
    Erdrich, Louise.
    FOUR SOULS.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2005). A novel which continues the Ojibwe saga Erdrich began in her novel "Tracks." Fleur Pillager takes her mother's name - Four Souls - for strength and walks from her Ojibwe reservation to Minneapolis and Saint Paul, seeking restitution from who has stripped her tribes land. 210 pp. plus reader's guide. ISBN: 0-066209757.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 81708
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  • THE NIGHT WATCHMAN by Erdrich, Louise.
    Erdrich, Louise.
    THE NIGHT WATCHMAN

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harper Collins, (2020). First edition - A novel based on the life of her grandfather who worked as a night watchman and who, in 1953, carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C. 2021 winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy but with a publisher's binding flaw to upper edge of the spine and front cover). An uncommon advance issue of an important novel.

    Book ID: 83868
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  • FOUR SOULS. by Erdrich, Louise.
    Erdrich, Louise.
    FOUR SOULS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which continues the Ojibwe saga Erdrich began in her novel "Tracks." Fleur Pillager takes her mother's name - Four Souls - for strength and walks from her Ojibwe reservation to Minneapolis and Saint Paul, seeking restitution from who has stripped her tribes land. SIGNED on the title page. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-066209757.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 81316
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  • BAPTISM OF DESIRE. by Erdrich, Louise.
    Erdrich, Louise.
    BAPTISM OF DESIRE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second book of poetry - includes a sustained prose section on Potchikoo, the Chippewa trickster. SIGNED on the title page. 78 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0162139.

    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 55266
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  • THE BLUE JAY'S DANCE: A Birth Year. by Erdrich, Louise.
    Erdrich, Louise.
    THE BLUE JAY'S DANCE: A Birth Year.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: HarperCollins, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first major work of non-fiction, one in which she "brilliantly and poignantly examines the joys and frustrations, the compromises and insights, the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions she experienced in the course of one twelve-month period - from a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood to a fall return to writing." SIGNED on the title page. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0171324.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 30689
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  • LAROSE. by Erdrich, Louise.
    Erdrich, Louise.
    LAROSE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harper Collins, (2016). First edition - A novel which opens with a tragic accident - a man shoots the 5 year old son of his closest friend - and includes a demand for justice and a profound act of atonement with its roots in indigenous culture. Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Award for Fiction. 371 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps (as new) An uncommon advance issue.

    Book ID: 69378
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  • THE GAME OF SILENCE. by Erdrich, Louise.
    Erdrich, Louise.
    THE GAME OF SILENCE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harper Collins, (2005.). First edition - Based on actual historical events, this is the story of a young Obijwe girl who lives with her family on an island in Lake Superior in 1850. Sequel to her National Book Award finalist, 'The Birchbark House.' Illustrated with drawings by the author. Author's note and glossary. 256 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (crease on back cover, appears unread).

    Book ID: 58896
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  • LAROSE. by Erdrich, Louise.
    Erdrich, Louise.
    LAROSE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which opens with a tragic accident - a man shoots the 5 year old son of his closest friend - and includes a demand for justice and a profound act of atonement with its roots in indigenous culture. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Award for Fiction. 372 pp. ISBN: 978-062277022.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 75219
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  • LOVE MEDICINE. by Erdrich, Louise.
    Erdrich, Louise.
    LOVE MEDICINE.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Andre Deutsch, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Native American author's first novel (second book, following a book of poetry) and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A 'story of the intertwined fates of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines on and around a North Dakota reservation from 1934 to 1984.' This went quickly into later printings. Cover praise from Anne Tyler, Kay Boyle and Peter Matthiessen (who called this a 'remarkable first novel . .. conveying unflinchingly the funkiness, humor and unspoken sadness of the Indian reservations, and a people exiled to a no-man's land between two worlds.') 272 pp. ISBN: 0-233-977414.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 58575
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  • THE ROUND HOUSE. by Erdrich, Louise.
    Erdrich, Louise.
    THE ROUND HOUSE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A moving novel which begins in 1988 when an Ojibwe woman is attacked on the reservation, an event which leaves her traumatized and her family devastated. Her most powerful novel, the recipient of the National Book Award for fiction. SIGNED on the title page. Afterword. 321 pp. ISBN: 978-0062065247.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread) .

    Book ID: 87686
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  • BEET QUEEN. by Erdrich, Louise.
    Erdrich, Louise.
    BEET QUEEN.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Holt, (1986.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's second novel - opens in the early 1930's in Argus, an off-reservation town in North Dakota. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-00585.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (price-clipped)

    Book ID: 41358
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  • TRACKS. by Erdrich, Louise.
    Erdrich, Louise.
    TRACKS.

    Edition: 4th printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Although this is the third in the cycle of novels begun with "Love Medicine," it is set earlier in time - in North Dakota in the early 1900's. . 228 pp. Jacket illustration, Bear Dancer, is by Frank LaPena of Sacramento, CA. ISBN: 0-8050-08950.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)

    Book ID: 51834
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  • THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB. by Erdrich, Louise.
    Erdrich, Louise.
    THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of a German immigrant who settled in North Dakota after the first World War -which spans the years from World War I to 1954. A book which celebrates both sides of Erdrich's heritage - German and Ojibwe. SIGNED on the title page. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6209773.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 43493
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  • BAPTISM OF DESIRE. by Erdrich, Louise.
    Erdrich, Louise.
    BAPTISM OF DESIRE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second book of poetry - includes a sustained prose section on Potchikoo, the Chippewa trickster. SIGNED on the title page. 78 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0162139.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (prev owner's name.)

    Book ID: 43717
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  • ALCATRAZ! ALCATRAZ!: The Indian Occupation of 1969-1971. by Fortunate Eagle, Adam; Foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr.
    Fortunate Eagle, Adam; Foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr.
    ALCATRAZ! ALCATRAZ!: The Indian Occupation of 1969-1971.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.

    Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, (1982.). First edition - Foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr. Photo essays by Ilka Hartmann. Emphasis is on the gains made in the Native American movement, despite the actual loss of Alcatraz itself. 155 pp. ISBN: 0-930588-517.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new, but upper corner slightly bumped.)

    Book ID: 54291
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  • ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY, AND CUSTER'S LAST BATTLE: The Little Big Horn Reexamined. by Fox, Richard Allan Jr.
    Fox, Richard Allan Jr.
    ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY, AND CUSTER'S LAST BATTLE: The Little Big Horn Reexamined.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1993.). SIGNED - An award-winning study of this major battle in war between Native Americans and the US military. "'Custer's Last Stand' was neither the last of the fighting nor a stand. Using innovative and standard archaeological techniques, combined with historical documents and Indian eyewitness accounts, ..Fox vividly replays this battle in astonishing detail. Through bullets, spent cartridges, and other material data, [he] identifies combat positions and tracks soldiers and Indians across the battlefield. Guided by the history beneath our feet, and listening to the previously ignored Indian testimony, Fox reveals stories of panic and collapse." SIGNED by the author on the title page. Illustrated with maps, photographs, and drawings. Extensive notes, references, index. 411 pp. ISBN: 0-806129980.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 86681
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  • KINAALADA: A Study of the Navaho Girl's Puberty Ceremony. by Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson.
    Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson.
    KINAALADA: A Study of the Navaho Girl's Puberty Ceremony.

    Edition: First printing.

    Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1967.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first complete, detailed account of the Navaho girls' puberty ritual, one of the most commonly performed but least examined elements of the Blessing Way complex,. Includes the Navoho text and translations and sheet music of 75 of the songs sung at the ritual. Based on the author's own experiences, and published accounts and on notes by other students. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, charts. Appendices, bibliography, index. xiii, [ 437 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust+ jacket (some minor edgewear to the dj, chip at bottom of dj spine.)

    Book ID: 43067
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  • ONE AGE IN A DREAM. by Glancy, Diane.
    Glancy, Diane.
    ONE AGE IN A DREAM.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.

    Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, (1986). First edition - The second full-length collection of poems and prose poems by this Native American author. Illustrated by Jay Moon. 98 pp. ISBN: 0-915943204.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (sunning to edge of front cover and spine).

    Book ID: 70312
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  • Glancy, Diane.
    MONKEY SECRET.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    Evanston IL: TriQuarterly Books - Northwestern University Press, 1995. First edition - Uncommon advance issue of this collection of 3 short stories and a novella by this Cherokee-German-English poet.

    Condition: Fine in printed yellow wrappers.

    Book ID: 20997
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  • Glancy, Diane.
    THE COLD-AND-HUNGER DANCE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays rooted in, and exploring, the author's Cherokee heritage and her Christian faith, and the fact that she is a 'marginal voice in several worlds.' Autobiographical segments and a section of photographs are found next to a poetic Ute Sun Dance Story. Includes a bibliography of her works, 109 pp. ISBN: 0-8032-21738.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 33187
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  • ONE AGE IN A DREAM. by Glancy, Diane.
    Glancy, Diane.
    ONE AGE IN A DREAM.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.

    Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, (1986). First edition - The second full-length collection of poems and prose poems by this Native American author. Illustrated by Jay Moon. 98 pp. ISBN: 0-915943204.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 63663
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  • Glancy, Diane.
    CLAIMING BREATH.

    Edition: First printing.

    Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The diary of a year in the form of brief prose pieces, poems and prose-poems. written with a "split voice" from the middle ground between two cultures. Winner of the North American Indian Prose Award. 115 pp. ISBN: 0-8032-21738.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 54401
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  • CLAIMING BREATH. by Glancy, Diane.
    Glancy, Diane.
    CLAIMING BREATH.

    Edition: First printing.

    Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The diary of a year in the form of brief prose pieces, poems and prose-poems. written with a "split voice" from the middle ground between two cultures. Winner of the North American Indian Prose Award. 115 pp. ISBN: 0-8032-21738.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 47342
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  • Glancy, Diane
    FLUTIE: A Novel.

    Edition: First printing.

    Kingston, Rhode Island & London: Moyer Bell Ltd, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coming of age story by this award-winning Native American writer. "Flutie lives on the dge of an enormous quiet that she wants to transcend. Her family's life on a dirt road in Western Oklahoma, her father's job repairing old cars and tractors belonging to impoverished hay farmers, her brother's betrayal, and her mother's indifference are all parts of a story Flutie wants to tell if she can find the words." Illustrated title page. 130 pp. ISBN: 1559212128.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 42180
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  • Golston, Sydele E.
    CHANGING WOMAN OF THE APACHE: Women's Lives in Past and Present.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Franklin Watts, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the "Changing Woman" ceremony which celebrates a young girl's passage from child to woman and at the role of women within the Apache culture. Illustrated with many photographs. Index, bibliography. 144 pages.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 14803
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  • Hale, Janet Campbell.
    THE OWL'S SONG.

    Edition: Early printing.

    Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1974. dj. Hardcover - Native American author's highly praised first novel, the story of a young boy 's struggle to adjust to living in a society determined to erase his identity. ISBN: 0-385-050208.

    Condition: Ex-library, in illustrated library binding, usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dustjacket.

    Book ID: 18719
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