Search Results: Native Americans from The Parnassus BookShop

Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation, 1973. First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Quarto in Very Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Photography by Carmelo Guadagno. 500 illustrations, b/w and some in full color. Orange cloth binding with Indian art illustrations on front, gold titles on spine, green titles on front. Very clean, slight rubbing of corners and spine edges, tight & solid sewn binding, square with sharp corners. Stirrup-spout vessel on Title Page. Faint smudges on fore edge of page block. Internals in Fine Condition-clean and unmarked, no creases. All illustrations fully described. The scope of the exhibition portrayed in this volume is the Indian of the North, Central and South American continents, from the time of the earliest surviving material culture to the expressions of contemporary Indian artists working in various media. It is an… Read More

Garden City, Neqw York: Doubleday & Company, 1966. First Edition.. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Nancy Mcaughlin. Type: Ex-Library Out-of-Print First Printing of First Edition, 1966. Ex-Library Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Illustrated by Nancy McLaughlin with monotone line drawings--she grew up with the Piegans and knew the chief and other members of his tribe intimately. She is widely know for her Indian portraiture and her many illustrations enhance both the beauty and the authenticity of this book. Except for library marks (light residue on front endpaper from removal of a checkout card, stamp on top edge of page block, faint tape residue on binding from jacket), in Very Good Condition, bound in black cloth with brown title panel on spine with gilt titles within. Tight, solid and square binding. Rough cut. Pages lightly toned, completely clean and unmarked, no creases. James White Calf, Chief of the Piegan Tribe of the… Read More

New York: Villard Books/Random House, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. An anthology of stories from tribal history and tradition, stories about the lives of men and women with names --Silver Mapateet, LaVoi Antler, Ghost Elk. It is a fictional archaeology of a tribe's traditions. Binding of burgundy cloth over spine with tan speckled boards, blind-stamp of Indian design on front, gilt lettering on spine. Clean and unmarked, tight and solid volume. Jacket designed by Morris Taub; the buffalo shield by Prairie Edge, the painted deer hide by Nona Aquan, with the jacket photo by Michael Britto. 270 pages. 8.6 x 5.75 inches. 1992, Villard Books/Random House, New York, New York, USA

New York: Scribner, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Remainder mark on lower edge, else Fine. The story of the demise and attempted resurrection of a native American nation, the Makah, whose lives had been defined by whale hunting, until commercial whaling caused the near extinction of the gray whale in the 1920s. After the whales were taken off the endangered specied list on 1994, the Makah made decided a whale hunt may restore the vitality and health of their Nation. This is their story. Remainder mark on lower edge, else Fine. Bound in black half cloth, silver titles, with blue boards, very clean and unmarked; tight and solid book. The story of the demise and attempted resurrection of a native American nation whose lives are forever changed. 283 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 2000, Scribner, New York, New York, USA