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THE KILLING OF MONDAY BROWN.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Walker, 1994. dj. Hardcover - Second Phoebe Siegel mystery - set in Montana's Big Sky country - takes us deep into the world of the Crow Indians. One of the best of the new mystery writers. ISBN: 0-8027-31848.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 24156More details Price: $13.50 -
THE KILLING OF MONDAY BROWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second Phoebe Siegel mystery. SIGNED by the author. Set in Montana's Big Sky country - takes us deep into the world of the Crow Indians. ISBN: 0-8027-31848.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (upper corners slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 52330More details Price: $30.00 -
BAJA CALIFORNIA AND ITS MISSIONS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Glendale CA: La Siesta Press, 1978. First edition - Includes sections on the Jesuit colonization, the Franciscan era, and Dominican period as well as on Native Americans today. Illustrated with maps and photographs. References, appendix. 96 pp. ISBN: 0-910856664.
Condition: Very near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82937More details Price: $16.50 -
PERILS OF THE OCEAN AND WILDERNESS. Or, Narratives of Shipwreck and Indian Captivity. Gleaned from Early Missionary Annals.
Edition: 2nd printing (first was in 1856.)
Boston: Patrick Donahoe, 1857. Hardcover - Accounts of the captivity (and often the death) of several Jesuit and Franciscan priests in the eighteenth century. Howes S-363. Duodecimo, 206, 8 pp advertisements.
Condition: Good overall in original embossed brown cloth, title page has had a small piece of paper affixed to the middle where the author's name appears, ex-library stamps in the margins of a few pages , some wear to the corners of the boards and ends of the spine, rubbing to the lettering on the spine, but binding is sturdy, pages are supple and this is easily readable.
Book ID: 56143More details Price: $65.00 -
HOHOKAM.
Edition: First printing - a limited, signed edition.
Condition: Fine in brown cloth with an ivory spine label in the original acetate wrapper.
Book ID: 38387More details Price: $75.00 -
HOHOKAM.
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with limited edition hardcover.
Tucson, Arizona: SUN / Gemini Press, 1986. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A long narrative poem on the vanished Southwestern people we call the Hohokam. Includes an afterword by Shelton on the little we know of the history of the Hohokam, a prehistoric people who lived in South Central Arizona for at least 1500 years, before their civilization abruptly collapsed around 1450 A.D. A handsome production designed by Clint Colby and Charles Alexander, illustrated with photographs by Stevem Trubitt of Hohokam pottery sherds found at Snaketown, Arizona (dating from 700-1000 A.D.) and with a silhouette of Shelton by Rebecca Gaver. Sun Lizard Book Number 2. ISBN: 0-933313055.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86643More details Price: $21.50 -
PRIMITIVE SCENES AND FESTIVALS.
Edition: First printing.
London: Faber & Faber, (1942.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of symbolism with sections on the landscape of the megalith, the Oracle at Dodona, Red Indian Warrior Customs, Mayan traditions, primitive dance and more. Illustrated with 16 plates. Index. 283 pp. James R. Herbert Boone's copy with his signature and date of 1942..
Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket (edges bumped, chips and edgewear to the dust jacket.)
Book ID: 55305More details Price: $25.00 -
THE REMOVES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of the Indian Wars on the Western frontier, told from the viewpoint of three very different characters: the driven George A. Custer; his wife, Libbie; and a young woman captured by the Cheyennes. An engrossing book. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2019. Illustrated with photographs, author's note, bibliography. 370 pp. plus photo credits. ISBN: 978-0374249311.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74991More details Price: $40.00 -
NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS: Myths & Legends.
Edition: First thus- hardcover reprint.
New York: Avenel, (1986.) dj. Hardcover - Attractive re-issue of a classic work originally published in 1914. Illustrations from drawings and famous paintings. Bibliography, glossary and index. 393 pp. ISBN: 0-517-604388.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 45048More details Price: $12.50 -
GHOST WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's third novel: Set in Santa Barbara, California, in the 1800's, in the days of the missions, this is a novel of the tragic results of the conflict of culture, race, sex and religion - Based on an actual historical event, this tells the story of Sage, a Chumash Indian woman, and her tragic encounter with white civilization - after the enslavement and death of her entire village, she is captured, renamed Solidad, and given to a family by a mission priest who is determined that she will become a Christian. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens. 302 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-395615925.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61435More details Price: $40.00 -
THE INDIAN FRONTIER OF THE AMERICAN WEST, 1846-1890.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2003.). SIGNED - Revised edition of a classic work originally published in 1984."The events of the final half century of conflict between Indians and whites in the American West are presented here as a history of two peoples seemingly destined to never understand each other. Utley interprets this conflict from a dual perspective: recreating events from the Indian viewpoint while also providing an objective appraisal of why the 19th century white man acted as he did." Includes the battles at Little Big Horn and Washita, the massacre at Sand Creek, Grant's policies, the views of reformers and more. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Illustrated throughout with photographs and maps. Notes, bibliography, index. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-29985.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57324More details Price: $25.00 -
THE INDIAN FRONTIER OF THE AMERICAN WEST, 1846-1890.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - "The events of the final half century of conflict between Indians and whites in the American West are presented here as a history of two peoples seemingly destined to never understand each other. Utley interprets this conflict from a dual perspective: recreating events from the Indian viewpoint while also providing an objective appraisal of why the 19th century white man acted as he did." Includes the battles at Little Big Horn and Washita, the massacre at Sand Creek, Grant's policies, the views of reformers and more. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Illustrated throughout with photographs and maps. Notes, bibliography, index. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-07159.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (bookplate)
Book ID: 57322More details Price: $25.00 -
SAM BELL MAXEY AND THE CONFEDERATE INDIANS.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Abilene, TX: McWhiney Foundation Press / McMurray University, (1998). First edition - A title in the Civil War Campaigns and Commanders series. "General Maxey. . . arrived in Indian Territory in 1863 to assume command of a diverse and motley army of Indians. The troops are in disarray; they are suspicious of tribal alliances, weakened from malnutrition, their crops have been pillaged, and they are discouraged by a series of battlefield setbacks at the hands of the Union Army invading from Kansas." Maps, photographs. Suggestions for further reading. Index. Label showing the publisher as the McWhiney Foundation have been pasted over the orginal publication information. 100 pp. ISBN: 1886661030.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78073More details Price: $18.00 -
CONTESTED PLAINS: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado.
Edition: First printing.
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Recounts the rise of the Native American horse culture among the Cheyenne and other tribes, the discovery of gold in the Rocky Mountains, and the bitter conflict that ensued, culminating in the massacre at Sand Creek and the Indian wars of the 1860s. SIGNED on the title page Illustrated, notes, bibliography, index. xxiv, 422 pp. ISBN: 0-7006-08915.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60640More details Price: $35.00 -
CONTESTED PLAINS: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado.
Edition: First printing.
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Recounts the rise of the Native American horse culture among the Cheyenne and other tribes, the discovery of gold in the Rocky Mountains, and the bitter conflict that ensued, culminating in the massacre at Sand Creek and the Indian wars of the 1860s. INSCRIBED on the title page to the noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens. Laid in is a brief typed, signed letter from West to Owens. Illustrated, notes, bibliography, index. xxiv, 422 pp. ISBN: 0-7006-08915.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60639More details Price: $45.00 -
THE WAY TO THE WEST: Essays on the Central Plains.
Edition: First printing.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A history of the great migration of Cheyenne Indians and Anglo pioneers onto the arid Central Plains of Kansas, Nebraska and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. SIGNED on the title page A title in the Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture series. Illustrated with many photographs, maps , extensive notes, bibliography, index. x, 244 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-16522.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67944More details Price: $50.00 -
EYE OF THE BEAR: A History Novel of Early California.
Edition: 2nd printing. A large trade paperback.
Rancho Murieta, CA: Bridge House Books (2002). Although written after the author's River of Red Gold, this is set in an earlier era, around 1825. Double page map. Glossary. 630 pp. ISBN: 0-9653487-41.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 73404More details Price: $18.50 -
EYE OF THE BEAR: A History Novel of Early California.
Edition: 2nd printing. A large trade paperback.
Rancho Murieta, CA: Bridge House Books (2002). SIGNED - Although written after the author's River of Red Gold, this is set in an earlier era, around 1825. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2005. Double page map. Glossary. 630 pp. ISBN: 0-9653487-41.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88769More details Price: $21.50 -
FOOD, DIET, AND POPULATION AT PREHISTORIC ARROYO HONDO PUEBLO, NEW MEXICO.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press, (1986). First edition - Includes additional reports - Ethnobotanical Pollen by Vorsila L. Bohrer and Artifacts of Woody Materials by Richard W. Lang. Arroyo Hondo Archeological Series, Volume 6. Illustrations and tables. Notes, references. Index. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-933452160.
Condition: Fine in glossy white illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 75849More details Price: $25.00