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HIGH WEST.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (chipping to upper edge of dj spine, slight sunning to spine.)
Book ID: 38961More details Price: $20.00 -
OHITIKA WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grove Press, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second book in the autobiography of this woman who was born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, grew up fatherless, was drinking at 12, raped at 15, but who joined the New American Indian movement and became a leader in the movement for Indian rights in the 70's and later. Her first book - Lakota Woman - written about those years and under the name of Mary Crow Dog - won the American Book Award. This continues her story after the ending of her marriage to Leonard Crow Dog, raising children as a single mother, her fight against alcoholism and struggling to survive - while still finding humor and hope in life. Illustrated with photographs. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-14369.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32210More details Price: $18.00 -
OHITIKA WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grove Press, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second book in the autobiography of this woman who was born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, grew up fatherless, was drinking at 12, raped at 15, but who joined the New American Indian movement and became a leader in the movement for Indian rights in the 70's and later. Her first book - Lakota Woman - written about those years and under the name of Mary Crow Dog - won the American Book Award. This continues her story after the ending of her marriage to Leonard Crow Dog, raising children as a single mother, her fight against alcoholism and struggling to survive - while still finding humor and hope in life. Illustrated with photographs. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-14369.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 43946More details Price: $14.00 -
WINTER COUNT.
Edition: Hardcover.
Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Co., (c. 1967.) dj. Hardcover - A historical novel, written by a Sioux Indian Chief, about the Teton Sioux from 1874-1890. 211 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (spine of dj sunned.)
Book ID: 13061More details Price: $20.00 -
WINTER COUNT.
Edition: Early printing.
Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Co., (c. 1967.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A historical novel, written by a Sioux Indian Chief, about the Teton Sioux in Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska and the Dakotas from 1874-1890 . INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page: "To --- With love & gratitude, With love and more thanks, Neta Kola, D Chief Eagle" and dated 5/15/70. 211 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (some edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 42703More details Price: $30.00 -
THE MURDER OF BOBBY OATES.
Edition: First edition.
Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris Corp, (2004). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, set in a small town in South Dakota where a former LAPD detective has accepted the position of sheriff, after her husband was killed in a shoot-out. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 193 pp. ISBN: 1-413465390.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81288More details Price: $21.50 -
A PROUD AMERICAN: The Autobiography of Joe Foss.
Edition: First thus.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86295More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SECRET OF DEAD MAN'S MINE: A Rinnah Two Feathers Mystery.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Los Angeles: Ugly Town, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Mystery featuring 13 year old Rinnah Two Feathers, a sleuth-minded Lakota Sioux Indian in South Dakota who investigates a mysterious stranger poking around a long-abandoned house, SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated by Jill Thompson. 221 pp plus a recipe for fry bread. ISBN: 0-9663473-31.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy.)
Book ID: 52021More details Price: $18.00 -
THE LEGEND OF DEVIL'S GULCH: An Historical Fantasy of Early Days in the Black Hills.
Edition: First printing.
Vermillion, South Dakota: University of South Dakota Press, (1990.). Hardcover first edition - Volume One in the Wayne S. Knutson Dakota Playwrighting Project. A play originally staged in 1948 at the Black Hills Playhouse, and one which has remained the most enduring work of South Dakota's most produced playwright. Foreword by Wayne S. Knutson, introduction by L. D. (Hap) Haberman, edited by Kenn Robbins, music by
Don S. Sundquist and lyrics by Richard L. Lippke (added in 1956) . Photographs. List of cast members. xi, 85 pp.m Patron of the Arts edition. Uncommon. ISBN: 0-929925-076.Condition: Fine in green cloth with gilt lettering.
Book ID: 29522More details Price: $25.00 -
THE MISSING PLACE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Gallery Books, (2014). SIGNED first edition - Set against the backdrop of North Dakota's oil boom, this is the story of two very different mothers who form an uneasy alliance to find their missing sons. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp plus a reading guide. ISBN: 978-1476757827.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 62373More details Price: $24.50 -
THE MISSING PLACE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Gallery Books, (2014). SIGNED first edition - Set against the backdrop of North Dakota's oil boom, this is the story of two very different mothers who form an uneasy alliance to find their missing sons. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 367 pp plus a reading guide. ISBN: 978-1476757827.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71675More details Price: $26.50 -
THE MISSING PLACE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Gallery Books, (2014). SIGNED first edition - Set against the backdrop of North Dakota's oil boom, this is the story of two very different mothers who form an uneasy alliance to find their missing sons. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp plus a reading guide. ISBN: 978-1476757827.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (an unread copy, but corners bumped).
Book ID: 72226More details Price: $20.00 -
CONQUERING HORSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - His eleventh book, a novel set in "Siouxland," the story of a young Sioux who wins his manhood and the right to lead his trible. As a "maverick" writer Manfred was always an outsider in terms of the literary establishment, although some of his books were best-sellers and his novel 'Lord Grizzly' was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1954. Glossary. 355 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (previous owner's name stamped on front endpaper, some overall edgewear and chipping to the dj) Uncommon in the hardcover first edition.
Book ID: 80394More details Price: $30.00 -
ARROW OF LOVE.
Edition: First printing.
Denver: Allan Swallow, Publisher, (1961.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Three novellas, all set in Manfred's "Siouxland" (the area where the borders of Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska meet). In addition to the title story (described as 'a romance'), this contains "Lew and Luanne" (a comedy) and "Country Love" (a pastoral). As a "maverick" writer Manfred was always an outsider in terms of the literary establishment, although some of his books were best-sellers and his novel 'Lord Grizzly' was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1954. Reportedly only 500 copies of this book were printed. 220 pp.
Condition: Good in very good dust jacket (the rather inexpensively produced binding has cracked before the title page and is "over-opened" at the end of the book, Dustjacket has a little toning to the spine, minor wear - still a quite presentable copy.
Book ID: 32978More details Price: $45.00 -
IN THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Condition: Near fine in in illustrated wrappers (spine slightly faded.)
Book ID: 53811More details Price: $14.50 -
IN THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (one corner bumped, some edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 65368More details Price: $40.00 -
IN THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to front flap of dj.)
Book ID: 48488More details Price: $50.00 -
AFTER AND BEFORE THE LIGHTNING.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1994.). First edition - Poems which grew out of a winter he spent in South Dakota on the Rosebud Lakota Sioux Reservation. Volume 28 in the Sun Tracks series. 135 pp. ISBN: 0-8165-14488.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85736More details Price: $21.50 -
A MEMOIR OF MY DAYS IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85516More details Price: $40.00 -
PICTURES FROM A TRIP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1985). Hardcover first edition - The author's first and only novel, inspired by the death of his brother. It follows four young people - Mark, Ben, Leslie, and Mark's brother (Tim, the narrator) - into the South Dakota Badlands as they search for lost American heroes and the biggest dinosaur bone in history. Rumsey is a Minnesota physician and amateur paleontologist. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-688039898.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80140More details Price: $18.00 -
KUNU: Winnebago Boy Escapes.
Edition: 5th printing, a trade paperback..
Jackson, WY: Grandview Publishing Co., (2003, c 1989). SIGNED - Story for older children based on the story of the forced relocation of 2000 Winnebago Indians in 1862 after a Sioux uprising. Many died from the inhumane conditions on their journey from Minnesota to the Crow Creek reservation in South Dakota, and more died there. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated by Jack Brouwer. A title in the Amazing Indian Children Series. 183 pp. ISBN: 1-880114-038.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67860More details Price: $11.50