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Pasadena: Privately Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press, 1939. First edition, limited, one of 150 copies, this inscribed, signed, & dated by the author at the first blank page. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), xiv, 350, & [2] pages, indexed. With a frontis portrait, 3 double-page maps and 21 other plates (2 in color). Original blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt. Spine & margins sunned, hint of fraying at the top of the spine, front hinge started (still secure), lightly foxed & toned (mostly at early & lated leaves), small stain affecting rear pastedown & blanks, otherwise Very Good. An insightful biography written by the son of DeWitt Clinton Poole. Poole served in the Civil War with the Wisconsin Volunteers & afterward with the Freedman's Bureau in Atlanta, Georgia. Additionally, he was an Indian agent at the Whetsone Agency in the Dakota Territory.

Autograph in ink on engraved United States Senate Chamber admission pass which has not been filled out. [Washington, D.C.], no date (circa 1930). Measures 2.75 inches by 4.25 inches, with annotation in ink in a different hand at the bottom of the card: "1928 - 1932."
Removed from a scrapbook leaving remnants of glue residue & paper on the verso, lightly toned, otherwise Very Good.
Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States, elected with Herbert Hoover, was a member of the Kaw Nation and the first Native American to reach either of the highest offices in the federal executive branch.

[Washington]: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1848. Single sheet uncut (18.5" x 12") folded forming 8 pp. Tattered including losses & tears in the margins (text unaffected), creased, foxed, & stained, good or so & still quite useful. "Relates particularly to expenses as superintendent of Indian Affairs for Michigan and neighboring territory" (Abstract, OCLC).

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1930. First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), 473 & [1] pages, illustrated, the frontispiece by Keith Mackaye & linoleum cuts by Ina Annett. Publisher's gilt-lettered light brown cloth, with a pictorial device depicting a team of horses & a man plowing a field.
Margins sunned, base of the spine with shallow loss, corners bumped, internal toning mostly affecting endpapers & pastedowns, previous owner's name & place in ink at the ffep, small booksellers' label at front pastedown, otherwise good or better.
This copy from the library of Allen Walker Read, an American etymologist and lexicographer, best known for his studies into the words "okay" and "fuck."
Contents include Wide River by Langston Hughes, Apocrypha of Billy the Kid by Maurice G. Fulton, & The Witch by Paul Horgan.

[Gallup, New Mexico: Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial Association], no date (ca. 1930's per OCLC). Octavo (9" x 8"), 16 unnumbered pages including covers, with illustrations throughout from photographs & a double page map. Publisher's pictorial, stapled paper wraps. Cover art by J.B. McKinley.
Moderately toned & soiled, brief edge wear including a tiny loss at the top corner of the rear cover which is also lightly stained, staples rusted, still good or better.
An uncommon promotional pamphlet which illustrates & describes tourist attractions & includes two pages on the Annual Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial festival.

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1905. First edition. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 29. Octavo (9.5" x 6"), 448 pages. Publisher's gilt lettered & decorated olive cloth.
Modest wear at spine extremities, corners, & edges, gilt dull, binding moderately soiled, front hinge started (still secure), internally toned, otherwise good or better.
The language of the Haida was suppressed at Native American residential schools during the late 19th & early 20th centuries in favor of the English only dictum. Today, it is estimated that fewer than 50 people speak Haida, most over age 70.

Denver, Colorado: Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company, printed by Carson-Harper Press, no date, ca. 1915. Single sheet measuring 6 inches by 27 inches folding to 6 inches by 3.5 inches forming 16 pages printed recto & verso. Provides illustrations from photographs by George L. Beam, two double page maps, & a list of passenger representatives for the railroad. OCLC finds 9 copies under four accession numbers, some with variations in date & pagination.
Slightly rubbed, couple of nicks & tiny splits at folds, otherwise very good or better
George Lyle Beam was the official photographer for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad as of 1905. Many of his photos of Mesa Verde Native American dwellings were published in a 1909 issue of National Geographic.