Native Americans from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Somerville, NJ: Clark S. Yowell, (1928). First Edition. Octavo pamphlet, 15pp. Only 90 copies printed. This copy has at some point in its history been bound into an octavo hardcover volume with ca. 100 blank leaves, presumably to provide shelf presence. Red cloth over cloth-covered boards, title faintly stamped on spine; Very Good. An elusive pamphlet; the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Tucson: David Stuart King, 1968. First, Limited Edition. No. 231 of 250 signed copies. Octavo; gold-toned cloth-covered boards with printed felt wrapper and slipcase; 310pp; illus; folding frontispiece map. A fine, unmarked copy in fine slipcase. Uncommon thus.

Edina, MN: Beaver's Pond Press, 2007. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Pictorial glazed boards (hardcover); no jacket (as issued); 177pp; illus. Fine, apparently unread copy, free of markings or detectable wear.

Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Co, 1980. First Edition. First printing; edition of 350 copies. Octavo. Cloth hardcover in original brown, unprinted dustwrapper; 107pp; photographic illus. Fine copy, with prospectus laid in. No. V in the publisher's series "Hidden Springs of Custeriana.

New York: Harper and Row, 1981. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 204pp. Miniscule spot of rubbing to cloth at base of spine, else a fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $13.95 on front flap), mildly toned at flap-edges but still very Near Fine. A very nice copy. Andrews' first… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1848. Twelfth Edition. Two octavo volumes (23cm). Publisher's vertically-ribbed green cloth, stamped in gilt on fronts and spines; plain endpapers; I: [i]-iv,[2],[v]-[x],[9]-424pp; II: [x],[7]-474pp; vol. I with frontispiece, map, 21 lithographic plates, and in-text wood engravings; vol. II with bifold frontispiece and 45 plates and wood engravings. An attractive set, lightly rubbed with minor… Saber más sobre este artículo

Independence, CA: Pioneer Publishing Company, 1975. First Edition. Quarto. 29cm. Original blue cloth boards titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 211pp. A near fine copy in dustjacket, unread. Internally clean. A deeply researched history of the oft-forgotten California Volunteer Regiment, who defended California during against all comers during the turmoil of the Civil War and its immediate aftermath. … Saber más sobre este artículo

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's yellow cloth boards, titled in black, grey, and silver gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 290pp. An exceptionally clean and bright copy with some very light scuffing and wear to the extremities of the dustjacket. A very good copy indeed. Internally clean. A handsome copy of the first book… Saber más sobre este artículo

Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co, 1949. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Maroon pebbled cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 87pp; frontispiece and four unnumbered leaves of double-sided photographic plates (halftones). Tight, clean, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, clipped by publisher on all four corners and without printed price; slightly edgeworn with several nicks and closed tears at margins; title… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1953. First Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's light brown cloth, titled and decorated in dark brown to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 191pp. A bright, handsome copy with slight wear to extremities, light bumping to spine ends, in a clean priceclipped pictorial dustjacket with some light sunning and soiling to the white rear panel,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Council Hill, OK: L.G. Park, (1933). First Thus. First printing of the revised edition. 12mo. Printed card wrappers (softcover); [viii],224,[2]pp; frontispiece portrait, text illus. Mild sun-fading to spine; light wear; still a Very Good or better, well-preserved copy. A revised edition of Banta's memoir, originally published in 1893. Includes a biographical foreword by Park, who was Banta's… Saber más sobre este artículo

Washington DC: United States Cavalry Association, 1936. First Edition. First printing softcover issue. 12mo (19cm). Original card wrappers (softcover); 173pp; illus. Bit of external rubbing and soil; faint marginal dampstain to final 15 or so leaves, else a tight, unmarked copy, Very Good. Account of Bernard's nearly 40-years career as a U.S. Cavalry officer, with accounts of his… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: W.B. Clarke Company, 1910. First Edition. First printings; "Library Edition." Large octavos (25cm) in publisher's blue cloth with printed paper spine labels; top edges gilt; fore- and bottom edges uncut; 528; 625; 703pp. Retired library copies, with card pockets, stamps, and white ink call numbers to spines. Hinges to two volumes tender (over-opened, but holding), still complete and… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Harrisburg: Telegraph Press, ca 1933]. First Edition. Octavo. Original green cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; x,[1]-143pp; color frontispiece; photographic text illustrations (halftone portraits). Trace of wear to cloth board edges and base of spine; occasional faint thumb-soil to text; still a straight, tight, Very Good or better copy. A rare and sought-after regimental… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1976. First Edition. Trade issue. Small octavo (20cm). Printed card wrappers (softcover, as issued) in original glossy pictorial dust jacket; 321pp. Near Fine in a Very Good or better dustwrapper. Text entirely in French.

Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1981. First Edition. First Printing. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Octavo (23.5cm); gray cloth boards titled in silver on a black background; dustjacket; 338pp. Faint rubbing to spine ends, still a Fine copy. The dustjacket has light edgewear with a few brief short tears, Near Fine. Recounting the life of the Arapaho… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, [1880]. Second Edition. Octavo (20cm). Brown cloth stamped in black and gilt; grey and white patterned endpapers; 349,[1],[4],8pp; 12pp publisher's advertisements at rear; black and white illustrations. Inscribed "To Capt. John Whytock from his comrade The Author" on front flyleaf. Ownership stamps of A. Taylor Smith to front endleaves. A straight copy with minor edgewear,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1957). Second printing ("revised," but see note below). Octavo. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 332pp; frontispiece portrait, two maps in text. Tight, clean and Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.00), barely soiled and toned on spine, Near Fine. Reissue of a classic and sought-after work on the Sioux, first published in 1937.… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Nome, AK]: Nome Nugget, 1951. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). Stapled pamphlet in grey paper wrappers, printed in white; [vi],37,[1]pp; black and white in-text illustrations. Sound, lightly rubbed, faded along spine, with faint square stain to front wrapper, internally clean: Very Good. Account of Inupiak life by Robert Mayokok (1903-1983), a native Alaskan artist. [62182]. … Saber más sobre este artículo

(Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing, 2005). Second Edition. First Mountain Press edition, following a limited edition by Settlers West Galleries. Large quarto (12" x 12"), pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 296pp; illus. FIne. The standard monograph on the work and career of Montana photographer L.A. Huffman, one of the preeminent chroniclers of the American West in the second half of the… Saber más sobre este artículo