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American Primitive [decorated artefacts of Amerindians].
Lesberg , Sandy.; Editor
ISBN: 0856900281
Peebles Art Gallery New York 1974 First Edition
quarto - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Laminated Illustrated Boards pp. [64]; 54 coloured photos., glossary; Introductory survey of the indigenous arts of the Americas, with 20 pp. text. Previous owner's name sticker at top of ffep. Art -- American Very Good
Price: $25.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0204936 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Annikadel; The History of the Universe -- As Told by the Achmawi Means of California
Woiche, Istet
ISBN: 0816512833
University of Arizona Press Arizona 1992 First Edition -- Thus
12mo - up to 7 ¾" tall - Duodecimo illustrated Card XXVI, 166pp., recorded and edited by C Hart Merriam, M.D. foreword by Dennis Tedlock, preface by editor, the alphabet, and index. Black and white photographic frontispiece of author and his wife. Illustrated covers, showing the outline of various animals against a light brown background with dark brown writing on the front panel and spine. Minus cuffing to the book corners and to their head of the spine. A little creasing to the lower right hand corner of the front cover. The mythology and religion of the Ashumawi Indians of northern California. This book was first printed in 1928 under the title of " An - Nik-A-Del: The History of the Universe", published by Stratford Company Publishes. Mythology Good
Price: $12.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0103311 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Clowns of the Hopi: Tradition Keepers and Delight Makers
Wright, Barton
ISBN: 0873585720
Flagstaff, Ariz. Northland Publishing 1994
Large 8vo softcover 136pp index, colour illus. very good. From the PublishernnThe author of Hopi Kachinas, one of Northland's bestselling books, takes an in-depth look at Hopi clowns, their purposes, and their historical backgrounds.
Price: $14.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 39176 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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Coyote the Trickster
Robinson, Gail & Hill, Douglas
ISBN: 0701150238
Chatto & Windus London 1975 First British Edition
Octavo- over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Light Blue Cloth 124 pp., colour illustrated dustwrapper. Folk Legends of the North American Indians told by two Canadian writers who have lived among them. The Trickster is a Supernatural being told of in the folk-lore of the Indians. Illustrated throughout with full page sepia style drawings. Boards lightly bumped and some minor foxing to the top edge, and offset tanning to end pages. Minor edgewear to the wrapper. Mythology -- Children Good
Price: $25.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0204946 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Ehanamani: Walks Among
Ross, A. C.
ISBN: 0962197726
Denver Wiconi Waste 2000
8vo softcover 232pp, b/w illus. very good, owner's signature on fep. The Santee Dakota author of Mitakuye Oyasin shares a "sundance experience"--one that led him to discover that the Federal Reserve System is controlled by private bankers. With updated and additional information, this book tells how the rich escape paying their share of taxes, how American Indian poverty is perpetuated by the Fed, and how we can learn to rid ourselves of the national debt.
Price: $15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 33802 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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Experiences of a Special Indian Agent
White, E.E.
University of Oklahoma Press Norman, Oklahoma 1965 Reprint
Octavo - up to 9 ¾" Tall Red Boards XL, 343 pages, introduction by Edward Everett Dale, list of illustrations, appendix, list of "The Western Frontier Library.". The text is illustrated with a few black and white line drawings. Red coloured boards with black insert on the spine with gilt and back writing. A little bumping into the head and to the heel of the spine and to the top and bottom rear corners of the book. Shelfwear to the lower book edges and dust marks to the top. Browning, dust marks and foxing to the top paper edge and slight browning to the others. Gift inscription to the free front-end paper. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a man on a horse, with a blue and the purple background and purple and white writing on the front panel and spine. The dustwrapper is heavily rubbed and somewhat faded and back panel is grubby. Rubbing to the dustwrapper corners and to the head and to the heel of the spine. Clipping of the dustwrapper, top right-hand corner of the front fold over. On the verso of the dustwrapper there is a printing of the " The Western Frontier Library " titles, " The Centres of Civilisation Series " and the " American Exploration and Travel Series ". The author was a special Indian agent to the latter part of the 19th century and these are his reminiscences of the Indians he met, conditions, white men ect. Part of the " The Western Frontier Library " series put out by University of Oklahoma. This being No. 29. Digital image available upon request. American Indian -- Fiction Reasonable
Price: $30.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0103383 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Fritz Scholder; Lithographs
Scholder, Fritz (Clinton Adams -- text)
ISBN: 0821206893
New York Graphic Society Boston 1975 First American Edition
4to - up to 12" tall - Quarto Decorated Tan Cloth 160 pp., catalogue of the lithographs. Blue textured endpapers. Illustrated frontispiece, "Indian With Feather Fan" by Fritz Scholder. Within the text there are 78 black and white and 25 coloured lithographs by Fritz Scholder, as well as black and white photographs. Tan coloured boards with blind stamped illustration (of an Indian) on the front panel and the writing on the spine. Minor shelf wear to the bottom edges of the book and there are some grubby marks to the top edge. Illustrated dustwrapper, same illustration as for frontispiece, with mustard coloured background with white and red writing on the front panel and spine. Dust wrapper is rubbed and slightly favoured and there is very minor rubbing to the bottom edge. A retrospective of Fritz Scholder's lithographs celebrating the modern American Indian. Art Good
Price: $60.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0101299 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Mattiessen, Peter
ISBN: 186046100X
The Harvill Press London 1997 Reprint
Octavo - up to 9 ¾" Tall Photographic Card XLII, 646pp., acknowledgements, maps, introduction by author, afterword by Martin Garbus, notes and index. Photographic front card cover, showing a Pawnee War drum, against a white background with black writing on the front panel and spine. Rubbing to all edges of the book and the corners are slightly scuffed. Grubby marks to the paper edges and to the book covers. "On a hot June morning in 1975, a shoot-out between FBI agents and the American Indians erupted on Reservation near Wounded Knee in South Dakota. Two FBI agents and one Indian died. Eventually for Indians, all members of the American Indian Movement [ AIM ] were indicted on murder charges. 22 years later, one of them, Leonard Peltier, is still serving two consecutive life sentences. The story of what really happened and why Matthiessen is convinced of Peltier's innocence, forms the central narrative in this classic work of investigated reporting.". *** This book weighs more than 1kg [2.2 lbs] and postage will be more than quoted. Please press "ask bookselller a question" button, for correct postage amount American Indian -- Fiction Reasonable
Price: $15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0103319 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Indian Legends of American Scenes.
Gridley, Marion E.
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co., 1939. First edition
Small 4to. hardcover. 128pp. b/w illus. very good. / very good d/w.' ' '
Price: $25.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 26852 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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Indian Running
Nabokov, Peter
ISBN: 0884961621
October 1981 Santa Barbara Capra Press
8vo. softcover. 208pp. very good.
Price: $12.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 24679 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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Mitakuye Oyasin: We Are All Related
Ross, Allen
ISBN: 096219770X
Ft. Yates, N.D. Wiconi Waste 2001
8vo softcover 235pp, b/w illus. very good+, owner's signature on fep. Winner of the 1992 "Top 50" Recognition Award at the Frankfort International Bookfair, Mitakuye Oyasin is an American Indian "Roots" story. It compares the myths and legends of the American Indian with the world's major philosophies and religions. The books is in its 5th printing. It is a bestseller in Europe with translations in French and German. The book is being used in 27 universities and 182 high schools. A few of the areas in which the book is being used are: Psychology, Comparative Religions, Native American Studies, Philosophy, Counseling and Guidance. A teacher's guide is also available.
Price: $15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 33803 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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Music of the Wild: with Reproductions of the Performers, Their Instruments and Festival Halls
Stratton-Porter, Gene
Hodder & Stoughton London 1910 First British Edition
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Dark Blue Boards Gilt 1.3 kg; 432 pages, last two pages blank, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs taken by the author of flowers, birds, animals etc. The author has arranged a book into three parts, the forest, the fields, and marshland. Photographic frontispiece with original tissue guards still intact. Top edge of the text block is gilt, and there is a slight rubbing at the corners of the boards, and the top and bottom of the spine. Digital image available upon request. The webbing of the binding is visible between pages 2 and 3, otherwise given the book's age I would be tempted to suggest its condition is very good. A companion volume to Friends in Feathers, the author who is most known for her children's books, was also an avid naturalist, and photographer. She did not think that it was once suitable occupation for a woman. Please enquire as to postage costs for delivery outside Australia, because, with packaging this book will weigh more than 1 kg Natural History Good
Price: $140.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0216011 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Navajo Weaving: Its Technic and History
Amsden, Charles Avery
The Rio Grande Press Inc New Mexico 1974 Fifth Printing
Octavo- over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Brown Vinyl Hardcover XX, 261 pages, + VII (blank), illustrated triple page ends pages (both front and rear), 12 figures in text, 123 plates, (the index of plates refers to a frontispiece which is actually tipped onto the rear of the front end page, and is a eight panel colour plate of the Chief White Antelope blanket). Extensive bibliography. Index. The lower front corner of the front board is bumped, and the vinyl either side of the block on the spine is cracked. Previous owner's name blacked out on the rear of the foldout. "The Navaho made of blanket weaving not only a fine art but also a profitable industry. The seminomadic pastoral life exactly suited their disposition. They rapidly acquired large flocks, discovering the plants that would yield beautiful and lasting dyes, adopted the simple apparatus needed in weaving, developed marvellous sense of design and facility of hand and eye. As a result the Navajo blanket has become known far and wide as a thing of beauty and utility." Local History -- America Reasonable
Price: $30.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0205608 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Paint the Wind
Hannum, Alberta
Michael Joseph London 1959 First British Edition
Octavo - up to 9 ¾" Tall Blue /Green Decorated Cloth 192pp., acknowledgements. The text is illustrated with numerous coloured illustrations by Beatien Yazz. Blue/green boards with red illustration of a bird on the lower front panel and gilt writing on the spine. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine and to the book corners. The top book edge and the spine have become sun faded. Some fading and rubbing of the book panels and on the lower one third of the spine there has been a small area of rubbing which has caused underlying cloth to be visible. Browning and offset tanning to the endpapers and internal pages are also browned. Original book seller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste down. Illustrated dustwrapper, again by Beatien Yazz, with bone coloured background and black writing on the front panel and spine. The dustwrapper is rubbed and faded and the spine is particularly affected by sun. Rubbing and chipping to the dustwrapper corners and to the head and to the heel of the spine. Grubby marks to the dustwrapper panels. There is a small hole in the lower one third of the spine, commensurate to damage on spine of book, and there is a smaller hole in the top one third of the spine. Price clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. There is a mark to the lower lefthand corner of the back panel. Heavy browning on the verso of the dustwrapper. Ms Hannum's book is vivid account of a warrior people, the Navajos, living good-humouredly in the midst of modern America, and of Beatien Yazz (Jimmy Toddy] in particular. Digital image available upon request. Biography Average
Price: $30.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0103179 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Solstice; The Art of Roy Henry Vickers
Vickers, Roy Henry
ISBN: 0-9693485-1-7
Eagle Dancer Enterprises Ltd. British Colombia, Canada 1988 First Canadian Edition
Square Quarto Blue Boards with Silver Gilt 144 pages, impressions by Ed Hill, reflections by Roy Henry Vickers and an index of the images. Illustrated endpapers, being a Native American symbol repeated against a dark blue background. The text is illustrated with numerous full coloured reproductions of Roy Henry Vickers' artwork -- from some of his earlier works and styles through to much more modern representations of his work. Dark blue boards with silver gilt illustration on the front panel and silver writing on the spine with small silver printers' cartouche to the lower spine edge. Very minor rubbing to the book corners. The major fault with the book is that page 144 was misbound at time of production and has caused a 0.25 " split to the lower page edge. Illustrated dustwrapper, again by Roy Henry Vickers, with silver writing on the front panel and spine and small printers' cartouche to the lower spine edge. The dustwrapper is very lightly rubbed at the corners. A crease to the top edge of the rear dustwrapper panel. A book about to be Canadian artist Roy Henry Vickers, and the development of his painting and style. Digital image available upon request. PLEASE NOTE: *** This book weighs more than 1kg [2.2 lbs] and postage will be more than quoted. Please press "ask bookselller a question" button, for correct postage amount Art -- Canadian Reasonable
Price: $60.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0104015 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Spin a Silver Coin; The Story of a Desert Trading Post
Hunnum, Alberta
Michael Joseph London 1947 Reprint
8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Yellow Illustrated Boards 350 g.; IX, 10-184 pages, last page blank, aknowledgements and list of illustrations. Colour illustrated frontispiece by Beatien Yazz who also drew the other at 11 drawings within the text. Yellow coloured cloth boards with black illustration of a horse on the front panel. Black insert on the backstrip and within that black insert silver titles. Bumping, rubbing and some discoloration to the backstrip edges and underlying board of visible to the top backstrip edge. Rubbing to the book corners and shelf wear to the book edges along with discoloration. Offset tanning, foxing and browning to the endpapers and age toning to the internal text. Gift inscription it to the top edge of the free front end paper. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, by Beatien Yazz, with black titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the front fold over panel and black-and-white photograph of Beatien Yazz to the rear dustwrapper panel. Rubbing and chipping to the dustwrapper corners and to the backstrip edges. Heavy rubbing along the fold over creases and to either side of the spine. The backstrip has become heavily rubbed and sunned. Browning along the top edges of the fold over creases and browning to the verso of the dustwrapper along with foxing. The results of insect activity can be seen along the front edge of the spine. Each corner of the dustwrapper and of the backstrip edges have small tears. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. A previous owner has supported the backstrip edges and tears with tape, on the verso of the dustwrapper, tape still in situ. The story of Sally and Bill Lippincott, who in the early 1940s went to the Navaho Indian Reservation to run the the trading post at Wild Ruins. The book is about their adventures and more particularly about a small Navaho boy called Beatien Yazz and of his exquisite artwork. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Memoirs Good
Price: $22.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0107560 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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The Best of the Athletic Boys; The White Man’s Impact on Jim Thorpe
Newcombe, Jack
ISBN: 0385061862
Doubleday & Co Garden City, New York 1975 First American Edition
Octavo - up to 9 ¾" Tall 1/4 Cloth and Boards X, 254 pages, last 4 blank, preface by author, and acknowledgements. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of Jim Thorpe. The text is illustrated with 18 black-and-white photographs. 1/4 red cloth spine with white writing and 3/4 blue boards. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine and rubbing to the book corners. Shelfwear to both the top and bottom book edges and there has been sun fading as well to the book edges and to the front book edges and to the front edge of the front cover. Browning and dust marks to the top paper edge. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste down. Photographic dustwapper, of Jim Thorpe against a white background and a group photograph of the 1907 Carlisle Indian Football Team on the back panel. Blue, black and red writing on the front panel and spine. The dustwapper is rubbbed and faded , particularly spine and the fold over creases. Chipping to the dustwapper corners and to the lower spine edge. There are some grubby marks to the spine region of the dustwapper and the white background has become quite dull. Chipping of the dustwapper, front fold over, top right-hand corner. The story of Jim Thorpe a Native American caught between the old ways of his tribe and the white man's way of life. Biography Ordinary
Price: $20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0103526 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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THE CARIBOO STORY
Lindsay, F. W.
British Columbia: Private Printing, 1974 (17th)
Illustrated wrappers. price sticker removal on front, otherwise Very Good+. 12mo. 52 pp. Only the faintest signs of use. The endpapers are decorated with black + white photographs. Illustrated with black + white photographs throughout, line drawings and maps. Includes flyer from Wake-Up-Jake Coffee Saloon with note from po.
Price: $25.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 22117 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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The Cherokee Nation
Starkey, Marion L.
JG Press MA 1995 Hardcover spine cocked, slightly, near fine/near fine D/w. 355 pp., + Index. "The Native Americans"
Price: $28.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 3870 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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The Colorful Story of North American Indians
Hassrick, Royal B.
ISBN: 0-7064-0360-6
Octopus London 1974 First Edition
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Illustrated Boards 144 pages, illustrated end pages, (each different), colour illustrated double page title page, text and illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs, and colour photographs and reproductions of drawings. Surprisingly no map is included. Digital images are available upon request. American West -- History Good
Price: $20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0209481 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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The Desperate People
Mowat, Farley
Michael Joseph 1960
8vo. hardcover. 272pp. b/w illus. very good, owner's stamp on fep. / fair, chipped d/w
Price: $18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 42736 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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The Native American Sweat Lodge: History and Legends
Bruchac, Joseph
ISBN: 089594636X
Freedom, Crossing Press 1993
8vo softcover 145pp, b/w illus. very good. From BooklistnBruchac has written many books about Native American legends both for adults and children, although more successfully for the latter than the former. In spite of the fact that this succinct history of the sweat lodge is written in Bruchac's characteristically simplistic style, it will hold the interest of adult readers. Bruchac presents a thrifty and cogent explanation of the function and role of sweat lodges both historically and in the present. Sweat lodges are part of nearly every native North American culture and have always played an important role in rituals of healing, preparation, and prayer. Bruchac discusses the repression of "sweats," first by the Spaniards and later by the U.S. government, and notes the hypocrisy of these bans, since saunas and other therapeutic steam baths were popular across Europe for centuries. It is with considerable irony that Bruchac then describes the current fad for sweat lodges among non-Indians, particularly in the men's movement. To deepen our understanding of the significance of sweat lodges within Native American cultures, Bruchac shares 25 relevant traditional tales from the Lakota, Blackfeet, Nez Perce, Seneca, Navajo, Hopi, Huron, and others. Donna Seaman--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Price: $15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 35771 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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The West of the Imagination
Goetzmann, William H. & Goetzmann William N.
ISBN: 0393023702
Norton New York 1986 Stated First
quarto - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Red Cloth xviii, 458 pp., + 4 blank. Comprehensively illustrated with black and white photographs and reproductions of art works, indexed. Colour illustrated dustwrapper. A volume that is a companion to the PBS series, it stands alone, showing the West as seen through the eyes of artists. It explores Native American images of the West from past to present, as well as contemporary versions of the legendary West. Art -- American Good
Price: $40.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0202733 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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