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PLOUGHSHARES . V O L U M E 20 , N O 1 , Spring 1994.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Emerson College, 1994. SIGNED first edition - A collection of stories on poems on the theme of "tribe" edited ad with an introduction by James Welch. SIGNED by TWO authors: by Sherman Alexie at his short story "Flight" and by Alberto Alvaro Rios at his story "Outside Magdalena, Sonora." Also includes contributions from Diane Glancy, Simon Oritz, Scott Momaday, Debra Earling, Charles H. Webb, Thylias Moss, Ophelia Navarro and many others. A profile of James Welch by Don Lee. Book reviews. 220 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 54978More details Price: $35.00 -
BLUE MESA REVIEW: Number Four (4): Spring 1992.
Edition: First printing.
Albuquerque: Creative Writing Center at the University of New Mexico, 1992. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by TWO contributors - Luis Urrea at "Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses" (an early publication, preceding his first book) and by Floyd Salas as his poem "Wedo." Also includes works by Paula Gunn Allen, Sherman Alexie, Peter Wild, Gerald Burns, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Ray Gonzalez, Reuben Sanchez, Rebecca Seiferle, Joy Harjo. Leslie Marmon Silko and many others. Notes on contributors. 221 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 70188More details Price: $40.00 -
SOUTHWEST STORIES, Tales from the Desert.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1993). First edition - An anthology including writers ranging from D. H. Lawrence and Georgia O'Keefe to Larry McMurty, Leslie Marmon Silko, Sandra Cisneros and Barry Gifford, Introduction by Barbara Kingsolver. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-8118-02167.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 61448More details Price: $18.00 -
POW WOW: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now.
Edition: First printing, the trade paperback issue.
New York: Da Capo Press - Perseus Books, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - An anthology that includes work ranging from animal stories of the Northwest Coast Eyaks to African-American folklore to reflections on the American Muslim experience. Includes contributions from both well-know writers like Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Russell Banks, and Zora Neale Hurston to newly discovered writers of all races, genders, and backgrounds. Among the 60 authors are Chester Himes, Robert Coover, Bharati Mukherjee, Benjamin Franklin, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ntozake Shange, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mark Twain, Grace Paley, Russell Charles Leong, Charles Wright, James Alan McPherson, and many more. SIGNED by Lucha Corpi and Cecil Brown at their contributions. Foreword by Reed, notes on contributors. xxvii, 505 pp. ISBN: 9781568583426.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 51226More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, 1994.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1994. SIGNED - SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: by Sherman Alexie at 'This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona.' and by Jim Shepard at "Batting for Castro" Among the other contributors are Robert Olen Butler, Carol Anshaw, Barry Hannah, Thom Jones, Tony Early, Barry Hannah, John Keeble, Chris Offutt and more. Included are notes on each contributor and a brief commentary by each one on the genesis of that particular short story. 364 pp. ISBN: 0-395-681022.
Condition: Very good in printed wrappers (corners somewhat bumped, Christmas 1994 notation on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 15737More details Price: $29.50 -
TRAVELS IN A STONE CANOE: The Return to the Wisdomkeepers
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Two journalists who came back from an assignment in Indian Country with a powerful message for humankind share the intensely personal story surrounding their time with the Wisdomkeepers, and continue to extoll the Native American approach to humanity and life." Photographs. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-684800942.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86102More details Price: $16.50 -
ADDRESSES AND POEM IN COMMEMORATION OF THE CAPTAIN MICHAEL PIERCE FIGHT, MARCH 26, 1676: Memorial Services at Central Falls, Rhode Island, October 15, 1904. Dedication of Monument, September 21 1907.
Edition: First edition.
1908. First edition - Includes a foreword by John Winslow, a brief history of King Philip's War and of Michael Pierce of Scituate by Edwin C. Pierce, a poem by Hezekiah Butterworth and a list of the slain members of the Plymouth Colony Company. Glossy frontispiece. 41 pp.
Condition: Very good in terra cotta flexible cloth boards (some loss of sizing to the cloth, or biopredation, contents near fine)
Book ID: 75419More details Price: $95.00 -
THE MORNING YOU SAW A TRAIN OF STARS STREAKING ACROSS THE SKY.
Edition: First printing.
Studio City, California: Rattle Foundation, 2022. First edition - A Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner, a slim collection of poems by Afro-Indigenous writer and member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe. 36 pp. Cover art by John Isaiah Pepion. ISBN: 978-1931307529.
Condition: Fine in stapled illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88062More details Price: $17.50 -
STONE SONG: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Double page map, historical note, glossary of Lakota words, phrases and Lakota place names, selected reading. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-312-855672.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 43089More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LITTLE INDIAN WEAVER.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1928.) dj. Hardcover - The first title in the "Children of All Lands Stories" series. Illustrated with photographs of children taken by the author. Red and white illustrated endpapers. Bound in light blue illustrated boards with a royal blue cloth spine. 134pp.
Condition: Very good in a fair dust jacket (gift inscription mostly hidden by dj flap, corners somewhat bumped, overall edgewear and chipping to dj, sunning to spine of dj)
Book ID: 79724More details Price: $15.00 -
NEW LETTERS : Volume 43, Number 2, Winter / December 1976.
Edition: First printing.
Kansas City: University of Missouri, 1976. SIGNED first edition - "A magazine of fine writing." Includes fiction, essays, poetry, and book reviews. SIGNED by Joseph Bruchac at his contribution of five poems. Also includes contributions by Heather Wilde, Taiko Hirabayashi, Kelly Cherry, Christopher Howell, David Ignatow, Ralph Salisbury, William Stafford, Illustrated. 126 pp plus notes on contributors We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated gold wrappers.
Book ID: 54548More details Price: $18.00 -
SACRED PLANT MEDICINE: Exploration in the Practice of Indigenous Herbalism.
Edition: First printing.
Boulder, CO: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Focuses primarily on plants as they were used by Native Americans in North America. "Useful as a reference book and inspires the reader to look again at the plant world as a source of life and healing." INSCRIBED on the half title page "For -- in the spirit of the plants" and dated in 1997. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. Includes 19 full color botanical plates by Cyncie Marini. Foreword by Brooke Medicine Eagle. Appendices, index. 210 pp. ISBN: 1-570980853.
Condition: Fine in very near fine dust jacket (very minor edgewear on dustjacket).
Book ID: 54600More details Price: $75.00 -
MISCEGENATION BLUES: Voices of Mixed Race Women
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Toronto: Sister Vision Press, (1994). First edition - A collection of "writing by more than forty women of mixed racial heritage. Together they explore the concept of mixed race identity, the fervor of belonging, the harsh reality of not belonging, and grappling two or more worlds of culture." Edited and with an introduction by Camper. Contributors include Lisa Jenson, Michelle Chai, Faith Adiele, Diana Abu-Jaber and many others. Notes on contributors. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-92081395X.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (upper corner slightly bumped)
Book ID: 89578More details Price: $25.00 -
FREEDOMWAYS; Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement, Vol. 9, no. 4, Fourth Quarter, 1969.
Edition: First printing, a magazine.
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1969. First edition - Includes A Selected Bibliography on Mexican Americans and Native Americans by Ernest Kaiser; Chief Joseph and His People by John Henrik Clarke; a selection of cartoons by Brumsic Brandon, Jr; poetry by Mari Evans, Eric Burroughs and others, book reviews and more. pp 295-384. Cover art by Elizabeth Catlett.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (light university library stamp on front cover, no other markings).
Book ID: 79342More details Price: $30.00 -
WILDWING.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Harper & Row, (1959). SIGNED hardcover - Set in Wyoming, where a young Arapaho boy witnesses a plane roundup of wild horses, and helps the herd to escape the canyon they had been driven into, but then finds a newborn colt lying on the ground next to its dead mother, and he determines to save it. Written and illustrated by Phoebe Erickson. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 180 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated boards in a sturdy Harper Crest library binding, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 87474More details Price: $21.50 -
VIEWS OF A VANISHING FRONTIER.
Edition: First printing.
Omaha, Nebraska: Center for Western Studies, Joslyn Art Museum, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Catalogue for an exhibition organized by Joslyn Art Museum's Center for Western Studies based on the written accounts of the 1832-1834 North American experiences of Maximilian, Prince of Wied. Includes more than 100 of Karl Bodmer's orginal watercolors and sketches Inclides list of illustrations,and checklist of the exhibition. Large format. 103 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-936364-122.
Condition: Fine in a verynear fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59459More details Price: $28.50 -
SKIN DEEP: Women Writing on Color, Culture and Identity.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, (1994). First edition - Essays, memoirs and poetry - contributors include Saundra Sharp, Sapphire, Rita Arditti, Genny Lim, Rita Williams, Maria E. Barron, Nellie Wong and many others. Each selection is preceded by a photograph of the writer. Reading list, list of resources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-895947080.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67475More details Price: $20.00 -
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN CAVES OF THE POINT OF PINES REGION ARIZONA.
Edition: First printing.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1980. First edition - Includes detailed information on the pottery and ethnobotanical remains found in the cliff dwellings of the area, illustrated with photographs, line drawings, charts and maps. Number 36 of the Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona, a peer-reviewed monograph series sponsored by the School of Anthropology, which publishes archaeological and ethnographic papers that use contemporary method and theory to investigate problems of anthropological importance in the southwestern United States, Mexico, and related areas.
References, index. Large format. xii, 218 pp. ISBN: 0-816503605.Condition: Fine in printed orange wrappers (as new)
Book ID: 83109More details Price: $20.00 -
WAYS OF KNOWING: Experience, Knowledge, and Power Among the Dene Tha
Edition: Trade paperback.
Condition: Good overall - underlining on a few pages, stains to bottom edge of textblock.
Book ID: 48415More details Price: $15.00 -
CUSTER'S LAST CAMPAIGN: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed.
Edition: First printing.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - An authorative book on this battle - one which uses a totally different focus to interpret the events: "Starting with the shadowy Mitch Boyer, a mixed-blood heretofore known only as the sole army scout to follow Custer into battle and die with him, Gray devotes Part I of the book to filling in the details of Boyer's thirty-nine years preceding the Sioux campaign of 1876 . . . Part II cover the two weeks (June 11-25) during which Boyer served as Custer's key guide and scount." Foreword by Robert M. Utley. Illustrated with photographs, charts and maps. Bibliography, index. xvii, 446 pp. ISBN: 0-80322138X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63165More details Price: $24.50 -
FIRE CARRIER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Oklahoma and featuring Mitch Bushyhead, half-Cherokee, single father, and Buckskin chief of police. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-566-5.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43495More details Price: $18.00 -
BREAKING (from The Book of Medicines)
Edition: Limited edition.
Berkeley, CA: Poltroon Press, 2002. First edition - One of 150 copies printed in letter press for the Environmental Poetry Festival, Berkeley, 7 September 2002 by Poltroon Press (an innovative small press founded in 1975 by Frances Butler and Alastair Johnson) A lovely production, consisting of a single poem, printed in black on cream colored stock with a pale aqua seascape woodcut, 13 inches tall by 10 inches wide. Broadside, single sheet.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 65464More details Price: $25.00 -
HYPERBOREAL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (2013). First edition - A collection of poetry by an Inupiaq writer with family from King Island and Marys Igloo, Alaska. King Island was the ancestral home of the author's family until the federal government's Bureau of Indian Affairs forcibly and permanently relocated its residents. Winner of the 2012 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, selected by Arthur Sze. A title in the Pitt Poetry Series. 63 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81270More details Price: $16.50 -
ARROW RELEASE DISTRIBUTIONS: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Volume 23. Number 4.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1927. First edition - A monograph by this noted and early anthropologist, of interest because of the information it includes on the pull used by the Yahi of Northern California, information learned from Ishi, the last of his tribe, who spent the last 5 years of his life living at the Museum of Anthropology at UC San Francisco. Pages 283-296
Condition: Fine in gray stapled wrappers. Uncommon.
Book ID: 76372More details Price: $35.00 -
INDIAN NATIONS: Pictures of American Indian Reservations in the Western United States.
Edition: First printing.
Santa Fe, New Mexico Twin Palms Publishers, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful and striking book containing 73 tritone photographs and text by Lyon, and an introduction by Larry McMurtry who states "Danny Lyon has found his way to the great places on the plains and in the desert--the places where the glory lived: Heart Butte, Little Bighorn, Rosebud, White River, Gila River, San Carlos, Standing Rock, Lame Deer, Pine Ridge. He has photographed Sioux and Cheyenne, Apache, Tphono O'odham. In fidelity to, and in the context of their ancient places, his subjects preserve a hard-worn dignity. Clear your eyes and look." One of 2500 copies. Large square format, printed on heavy glossy text. 108 pp plus a final photograph, acknowledgements and colophon. ISBN: 0-944092926.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 70556More details Price: $65.00 -
THE DESERT IS NO LADY: Southwestern Landscapes and Woman's Writing and Art.
Edition: First thus- a large trade paperback.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1997). A study of woman writers and artists who found their voices and images in the desert of the Southwest - well known figures such as Willa Cather, Georgia O'Keefe Leslie Marmon Silko, Nancy Holt, photographer Laura Gilpin, but also less well known figures of varying ethnicity. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps. List of illustrations, notes, index. xii1, 281 pp. ISBN: 0-816516499.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new)
Book ID: 68623More details Price: $18.50 -
THE DESERT IS NO LADY: Southwestern Landscapes and Woman's Writing and Art.
Edition: First printing.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of woman writers and artists who found their voices and images in the desert of the Southwest - well known figures such as Willa Cather, Georgia O'Keefe Leslie Marmon Silko, Nancy Holt, photographer Laura Gilpin, but also less well known figures of varying ethnicity. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps. List of illustrations, notes, index. xii1, 291 pp. ISBN: 0-300-036884.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (stain to outer edges of upper corner of textblock).
Book ID: 38739More details Price: $28.50 -
THE INSUFFIENCY OF MAPS: A Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York, NY: Atria Books, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young girl who must find her place in two cultures - the reservation on which she spent her first years, and the white suburban foster family with whom she was placed when her mother succumbs to schizophrenia, INSCRIBED on the title page by the author, "For ... Best Wishes..." Dust jacket praise from Sherman Alexie and Janet Fitch among others. 217 pp. ISBN: 978-0743292078.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 55227More details Price: $25.00 -
BOAT RIDE WITH LILLIAN TWO BLOSSOM.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper, minor wear)
Book ID: 89184More details Price: $18.50 -
ALANIS OBOMSAWIN: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2006). First edition - The first book devoted to any Native American filmmaker. "In more than twenty powerful films, Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has waged a brilliant battle against the ignorance and stereotypes that Native Americans have long endured in cinema and television." Illustrated with black and white photographs.Includes filmography, list of Native American documentaries, notes, bibliography, index. xxvi, 260 pp. ISBN: 0-803280459.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63130More details Price: $27.50