The Delight Makers

8vo. Red cloth, with black spine titles. Prevowner name. DJ orange at top and bottom front, b/w photo of Pueblo man emerging from canyon home. DJ worn and torn to edges, sunned spine. ow sharp corners, good copy of the 1960 printing. VG/gdj: Xvii+490 pages, with b/w photographs. Introduction by Charles F. Lummis. First published 1890. Historical novel of Pueblo Indians of New Mexico by Swiss-born, archaeologist Adolf Francis Bandelier (1840 - 1914), supported by scholarly descriptions of country, natural settings, architectual ruins, cultural values & patterns of behavior. " The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico are the subjects of this remarkable novel. Their mysterious history, their early relations with the Spaniards, relics of which still mystify the tourists, and their equally queer customs are all described while the reader is being entertained with a most thrilling plot. The book is a classic of its kinds and of great value to both tourists and students of the unique aboriginal life of the great Southwest. With 16 illustrations from photographs taken expressly for this book... More than one serious student of the ethno-history of our Southwest has frankly declared that the basis of future investigation of the kind that Bandelier inaugurated will always be the writings of that eminent man. Had he been permitted to live and labor, nothing would have given him greater satisfaction than the knowledge that the people among whom he spent so many years are of those who fully appreciate the breadth of his learning and who have been instrumental in the creation, by proclamation of the President, of the "Bandelier National Monument," for the purpose of preserving for future generations some of the archæological remains he was the first to observe and describe."