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Washington: Published for the Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974. 93 pages. The catalog (beginning on p. 33) is illustrated throughout with photographs; additional photographs and a map appear with the text. Original illustrated stiff paper wraps. [29.6 cm.] Near fine. Some very slight evidence of soiling to wraps, head of spine just a trifle bumped, still an excellent copy. Ownership stamp of Richard Eugene Lyons and his wife Marjorie on the front free endpaper. Lyons (1920-2000) was a poet and longtime professor of English at North Dakota State University. FIRST EDITION. A catalog of an exhibition held at the Renwick Gallery, Nov. 13, 1973 - Nov. 9, 1975. Introduction by Sturtevant. Several prefatory essays include, "Functions of the Containers," by Ira S. Jacknis and "Structure and Design," by Bill Holm.

N.Y.: Carlton Press, [1968]. 123 pp. Original orange cloth. [21 cm]. Very nearly fine in very good plus dust jacket. Spine panel of dust jacket is sun-faded and shows tiny tears at base with repair on verso. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, dated in the year of publication, on the title page. A memoir of the author's boyhood in the vicinity of Cloud Chief, Washita County, Oklahoma. There is much also on the Gantz family. Included are recollections of a covered wagon trip to Texas, Dawson's education at the Eureka School, the expansion of roads and the coming of automobiles, the Arapahoe Indians living near Colony, social life, etc.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1971]. 312 pages, plus plates reproducing historic photographs. Original quarter cloth and boards. [23.4 cm.] Bookplate on front pastedown and name on front flyleaf, else a fine copy in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket has short tear (less than two centimeter), slight crease to front panel and some tiny evidence of soil. FIRST EDITION.

Austin: Encino Press, 1971. xiii, [1], 74 pages, plus portrait frontispiece. Illustrated with several historic photographs. Original boards. Endpaper map. [23.5 cm.] A fine copy in original publisher's mylar dust jacket (faintly rubbed, tiny chip at head of spine). [Note: Listing photo does not depict jacket.] FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, on a front blank.

[Oklahoma City]: Oklahoma Historical Society, [1955]. 169-182 pages, plus photographic plate. Full-page map reckoned in the pagination. Original printed wraps. [22.8 cm.] Very good. Some light foxing to front wrap and a few marks to rear wrap, but internally clean. Manuscript correction to caption of plate. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, being an offprint from "The Chronicles of Oklahoma," vol. 33, no. 2. Laid-in is a leaflet, "The Sequoyah Memorial. Oklahoma History Class, Sallisaw High School ... 1955-1956," published by the Sallisaw Chamber of Commerce. [Four pages, illustrated, 21.5 cm.] SCARCE.