The Song of Hiawatha
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First American edition, published shortly after the English edition. The text is in... Read More
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The History of the American Indians; Particularly Those Nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and...
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775. First edition. “Best 18th century English source on the Southern tribes” (Sabin), written by “one of the most colorful figures in Southern colonial history” (Clark), a man who for forty years traded with the Indians. From 1735 until 1759 he traded with... Read More
Price: $5,500
Echoes from the Backwoods; or Sketches of Transatlantic Life.
London: Henry Colburn, Publishers, 1846. First edition. The author served in Canada in the suppression of the French Canadian uprising of 1837-8. In this work, Levinge describes his military service, impressions of the wildlife and sporting of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, "A Race Through the United States" south to... Read More
Price: $1,400
The Indians of Pecos Pueblo. A Study of Their Skeletal Remains.
New Haven: Published for the Dept. of Archeology / Phillips Academy. Andover, Massachussetts / By the Yale University Press, 1930. Read More
Price: $225
'We Did a Wise Right Thing in Taking Indian Pupils'
Autograph Letter Signed "S.C. Armstrong" (Samuel Chapman Armstrong) to "Mr. Hubbard" regarding a donation made to "our work for indians"...
Hampton [VA]: March 12 1880. 'We Did a Wise Right Thing in Taking Indian Pupils'. An important historical letter discussing the integration of Native American students into the African American, Hampton Normal School, by it’s founder. Reading in part: “In response to your donation to our work for indians last... Read More
Price: $350
Contributions to the History of the southwestern portion of the United States.
Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1890. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
Final Report of Investigations among the Indians of the southwestern United States carried on mainly in the years from 1880...
Cambridge: Printed by John Wilson and Son University Press, 1892. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
Western Artist John Edward Borein's Own Copy
Geronimo’s Story of His Life. Taken down and Edited by ….
New York: Duffield & Company, 1907. Later printing. Western Artist John Edward Borein's Own Copy. Read More
Price: $450
![[The Bible, translated into the Language of the Kristeneaux or Crees of North America, by WIlliam Mason and Others] [Old Testament & New Testament in Cree Syllabary]. Cree Bible.](/pictures/thumb/230928.jpg?v=1438724740)
[The Bible, translated into the Language of the Kristeneaux or Crees of North America, by WIlliam Mason and Others] [Old...
London: Printed for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1861-2. First edition. The distinctive Cree Syllabary was invented in 1841 by Wesleyan missionary James Evans. Darlow & Moule note that this translation into Western Cree was prepared “by W. Mason, assisted by his wife, Sophia Mason, H. Steinhauer (an Indian... Read More
Price: $2,500
Portfolio of Hopi Kachinas. Foreword by Carl Schaefer Dentzel.
Hollywood, California: Homer H. Boelter Lithography, 1969. First edition, Number 781 of 1000 copies. Read More
Price: $350
On the Border with Crook.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. First edition. One of the most acclaimed works on the Indian wars, by an army officer and ethnologist who served on Crook's staff. "A truly great book, on both the Apaches and the Arizona frontier" - Dobie. Read More
Price: $450
An Authentic and Comprehensive History of Buffalo...Arranged in Chronological Order.
Buffalo: Rockwell, Baker & Hill, Printers, 1864. First edition. Read More
Price: $250
Annals of Tryon Country; or, the Border Warfare of New York, During the Revolution.
Cheerry Valley: The Cherry Valley Gazette Print, 1880. Thirdt Edition. An important contribution to the history of New York's border wars, and a book that excited much attention, inspiring several other frontier histories in New York and adjoining states. "A pioneer work in the annals of early western New York... Read More
Price: $150
Case of 1799 re: Mannings Marsh and 17th c./18th c. acts re: tribal Indian lands.
"Mannings Marsh was surveyd for Manning on the 29th March 1663, and was patented the 11th Sept. 1663 to Mr. Dorrington..." Read More
Price: $250
George Catlin and the Old Frontier.
New York: The Dial Press, 1959. Number 74 of 250 copies signed by the Author. Read More
Price: $400
Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: In a Series of Letters and Notes Written...
New York: Henry G. Bohn, 1857. Ninth Edition. An idealist and dreamer in the best American sense, Catlin's purpose, as noted in these letters, was to "[snatch] from a hasty oblivion what could be saved for the benefit of posterity, and perpetuating it, as a fair and just monument, to... Read More
Price: $1,250
One of 13 Copies on Vellum
The New Laws of the Indies for the Treatment and Preservation of the Indians Promulgated by the Emperor Charles the...
London: Chiswick Press, 1893. No. 11 of 13 copies printed on vellum (there were also 88 copies printed on paper). One of 13 Copies on Vellum. This work consists of two important ordinances issued by the Spanish monarchy on November 20, 1542, and June 4, 1543. Under the active influence... Read More
Price: $8,000
In Boards
The Natchez; an Indian Tale.
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First edition in English. In Boards. Read More
Price: $1,250
The San Carlos Apache Police & The San Carlos Apache Police II.
np: Reprinted from the New Mexico Historical Review, 1929 & 1930. First separate editions. These books are written by the man who captured Geronimo, later became mayor of Tombstone, and founded the Tombstone Epitah. Read More
Price: $200
Manomin: A Rhythmical Romance of Minnesota, The Great Rebellion, and the Minnesota Massacres.
St Louis: Published by the Author, 1866. First edition. Read More
Price: $175
A collection of flyers, broadsides, handbills, booklets and other ephemera printed at the gay anarchist collective print-shop, Come!Unity Press.
New York: 1971-1977. Come!Unity Press was a gay anarchist collective print shop on East 17th Street in New York City in the 1970s. Founded with an initial measure of support from the Quaker Project on Community Conflict, from January 1972 the press operated as a 24-hour shared working/living space, and... Read More
Price: $750
Mission of the Church to the Yankton Sioux Indians.
Yankton Agency [Dakota Territory]: Mission Press, 1870. A rare imprint from the Dakota Territories, a pamphlet detailing the history of the establishment of the Episcopal mission to the Yankton Sioux Indians, ending with a plea for resources and including details of the establishment of a printing press there. Taking the... Read More
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The Little Osage Captive: An Authentic Narrative.
Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong and Crocker & Brewster New York: John F. Hayen, 1822. First edition. Captivity takes place in Tennessee. Read More
Price: $550
Adventures on the Columbia River, including the narrative of a residence of six years on the western side of the...
New York: J. & J. Harper, 82 Cliff Street, 1832. First American edition. First American edition of this “The narrative of the personal experience of a fur-trader, among the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope; full of adventure, history, and character” (Field). “Cox's narrative gives an excellent... Read More
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“On the Shores at Nootka”.
[Boston: D. Sacilotto for Charles Lauriat’s, 1967]. Plate 366 from The North American Indian. A fine restrike from the original plate from Curtis’ masterpiece, The North American Indian. Read More
Price: $750
The Story of the Little Big Horn.
New York: The Century Co, [1926]. First edition. Read More
Price: $125