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HATTER FOX.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Random House, (1973 dj. Hardcover - The fourth novel by this award-winning Oklahoma writer, the story of a rebellious, angry seventeen-year-old Navajo girl, locked up in a reformatory and on a path of self-destruction, who meets an idealistic young white doctor from the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is determined to save her from herself. The issues it raises are as relevant today as they were when it was published - it is about a deep racism in society that still persists. Basis of the 1978 television film "The Girl Called Hatter Fox" starring Joannelle Nadine Romero as Hatter Fox, the first time a Native American had a feature role in a US film. 241 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.(spine slant, some edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 91248More details Price: $14.50 -
THE DAVID ADAMS JOURNALS.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Chadron, Nebraska: The Museum Association of the American Frontier, (1994). David Adams, who went West with Captain Bonneville in 1832 just as the fur trade was ending, worked well with the Plains Indians, and his papers reveal many details of the conduct and character of the robe trade. These were transcribed from sometimes fragmentary originals by Charles Hanson, Jr. and Veronica Sue Walters of the Museum of the Fur Trade in the winter of 1975-76. Map, illustrated with photographs. Index. v, 110 pp.
Condition: Very good in tan wrappers (some wear to covers, contents clean)
Book ID: 91006More details Price: $17.50 -
SWIMMING MAN BURNING: A Rip-roaring Novel of the American West.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good overall - some wear to the covers, contents tight and clean, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 89506More details Price: $65.00 -
DARKNESS IN EL DORADO: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some scattered marginal notations, a few corners dog-eared)
Book ID: 89448More details Price: $16.50 -
RAVEN-WHO-SETS-THINGS-RIGHT: Indian Tales of the Northwest Coast,
Edition: First thus.
New York: Harper & Row, (1975) dj. Hardcover - Illustrated with line drawings by Dorothy McEntee. A revised edition of the 1951 title 'Nine Tales of Raven'. 90 pp. ISBN: 06-0240725.
Condition: Ex-library in illustrated boards and with only a few markings, overall tight and clean in a very good unmarked dj.
Book ID: 89102More details Price: $12.50 -
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 -
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 -
THE WRITINGS OF FRANCISCO GARCIA DIEGO Y MORENO, OBISPO DE AMBAS CALIFORNIAS.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Fine in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85475More details Price: $50.00 -
THE KILLING OF MONDAY BROWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second Phoebe Siegel mystery SIGNED on the half title page. Set in Montana's Big Sky country - takes us deep into the world of the Crow Indians. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-31848.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 84211More details Price: $35.00 -
A MONUMENT TO TREASURE: A Journey through the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument.
Edition: First edition.
Desert Publications, nd (2005). Hardcover first edition - A boy and his grandfather travel through this Southern California monument (established in 2000) as he explains the traditions of his people, the Cahuilla Indians, who lived in these mountains as well as the geology and plants and creatures who live in the desert. Includes two fold-out pages depicting the life zones of the mountains. Beautifully illustrated in full color by Stuart Funk. Bibliography, large square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-977290808.
Condition: Fine in illustrated boards, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 82839More details Price: $15.00 -
RETURNING TO EARTH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grove Press, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A 'tender, profound and magnificent novel about life, death and finding redemption in sometimes unlikely places.' At the center of this story is Donald, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, who is slowly dying of Lou Gehrigs Disease, and begins dictating family stories he has never before shared with anyone, hoping to pass on this history to his children. INSCRIBED by Harrison on the title page in . 280 pp. Flyer from signing event laid in. ISBN: 0-802118380.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (an unread copy, a few tiny specks to dj.)
Book ID: 81350More details Price: $85.00 -
THE STARS WEEP.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hutchinson, (1956) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a trip undertaken by two young French ethnologists to trace the remote Indian villages in Bolivia and Peru, including around Lake Titicaca and near Machu Pichu, communities which had been respected by the Incas and not conquered by the Spanish conquistadores. This account is focused more on the people they encountered than on the scientific aspects of the trip, on the sexual and religious customs, on the rites of witchcraft, marriage and death. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Illustrated with 36 black and white photographs and 3 drawings. Index. 198 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (short closed tear to back cover of dj)
Book ID: 80418More details Price: $25.00 -
RACIAL PREJUDICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - An examination of the vicious racial stereotypes which have affected tge treatment of African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans from colonial times to the present. It analyzes the economic inequalities that continue to affect these minorities - hurting both them and the US as a whole - even after some of the most blatant discriminatory became a thing of the past. A title in the Issues in American History series. Photographs, suggestions for further reading, index. 118 pp. ISBN: 0-53110057X.
Condition: Ex-library in a sturdy library binding, with the usual markings and a few penciled notations in the margins, but overall tight and clean in a very good dust jacket (spine label)
Book ID: 79064More details Price: $15.00 -
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 -
THE SURVIVAL OF THE BARK CANOE.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Nea fine in brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine (a bit of rubbing to the spine) in a very good dust jacket with toning to the spine, back cover, one very small chip on upper edge of back cover.
Book ID: 77904More details Price: $200.00 -
THE HEARTLAND CHRONICLES.
Edition: First edition.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1995). Hardcover first edition - From the foreword: This is a tale of Indians and whites living together in a small Iowa community. It is also about an anthropologist returning to his home town, and how he got inside Iowa's tiny but old Mesquaki Indian culture just at the moment that the tribe's civil rights struggle and its new casino changed all the old relationships, as these tribal people - with their noble traditions - came into modernity. A title in the Series in Contemporary Ethnography. References, index. ix, 228 pp. ISBN: 0-812233263.
Condition: Fine in gray cloth (a new copy.) No dust jacket as issued.
Book ID: 76765More details Price: $25.00 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
THE SERPENT SLAYERS: A Southwestern Supernatural Thriller (A Novel in the Shaman Cycle)
Edition: First trade edition.
Phoenix Arizona: Integra Press, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An earthquake and mutated rattlesnakes have hit Northern Arizona - the second novel in the Shaman cycle. Cover art by Armand Cabrera. Praise from Diana Galbadon and Poul Anderson, among others. INSCRIBED on the half title page "For -- Careful! There's lots of slithering and shivering in here!" 308 pp. ISBN: 0-962614823.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (2 short closed tears to bottom edge of rear cover of dj, dj is now in an archival protector)
Book ID: 67451More details Price: $28.50 -
PEOPLE OF THE WEEPING EYE [A Novel of North America's Forgotten Past]
Edition: First printing.
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic novel set against the might of the Mississippi chieftains, Fifteenth in the highly praised series by this couple who are professional archeologists. Maps and interior art by Elissa Mitchell, jacket art by Royo. Selected bibliography. 432 pp. ISBN: 978-0765314383.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (some toning to the pages, hint of spine slant).
Book ID: 63648More details Price: $16.50 -
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 -
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 -
FOREVER FRONTIER: The Gila Cliff Dwellings.
Edition: Fourth printing, a slim trade paperback.
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico, 1967 (1991). A study of the Gila Cliff Dwellings in the Mogollons in New Mexico and of the civilization that resided there. Photographs, bibliography and Index, 62 pp. ISBN: 0-961535903.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated stapled wrappers.
Book ID: 59905More details Price: $11.50 -
FORTY-SEVENTH STAR: New Mexico's Struggle for Statehood.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (2012). First edition - A definitive and readable look at why it took more than 60 years (from 1848 to 1912) for New Mexico to finally become a state. Photographs, map, extensive notes, bibliography, index. xix, 362 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59273More details Price: $21.50 -
PAINTED TURTLE: Woman with Guitar.
Edition: First printing.
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel about Painted Turtle, a Zuni folk singer, who first appeared in 'My Amputations.' 159 pp. ISBN: 1557130028.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a fine and unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 58112More details Price: $13.50 -
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