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W. Gannon, 1976-01-01. Unbound. Very Good. 8x6x0.

W. Gannon, 1976. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Fine. WELL-PRESERVED, UNREAD 1976 softcover. Facsimile reprint by Gannon (publisher) of the 1938 original. First edition thus. Bright, unmarked, well-bound pages, clean inside and out! Sharp edges and corners. Very nice! The "First Penthouse Dwellers of America" were the Indian Americans of the Pueblos, and this is their story. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. Contents: Chapter 1: The First Americans; Chapter 2: The Peaceful Hopi; Chapter 3: Zuni the Center; Chapter 4: The Warriors of Keres; Chapter 5: The Catholic Tewa; Chapter 6: Taos by the Buffalo Country.

W. Gannon, 1976. Loose Leaf. Good.

W. Gannon, 1976-01-01. Loose Leaf. Used:Good.

161 pages with figures and plates. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with red lettering to spine and front cover with an a pictorial. Second edition. Ruth Murray Underhill (August 22, 1883 – August 15, 1984) was an American anthropologist. She was born in Ossining-on-the-Hudson, New York, and attended Vassar College, graduating in 1905 with a degree in Language and Literature. In 1907, she graduated from the London School of Economics and began travelling throughout Europe. During World War I, she worked for an Italian Orphanage run by the Red Cross. After the war, she married Charles C. Crawford and published her first book The White Moth. Her marriage ended in 1929 and by 1930 she decided to go back to school to learn more about human behavior. After speaking with Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict in the Anthropology Department at Columbia University, she decided to pursue the field, graduating in 1937. She wrote numerous books on Native Americans and helped to… Read More

W. Gannon, 1976. Good.

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Laboratory of Anthropology, 1946. 2nd ed., rev. and redesigned. Hardcover. A few small areas of foxing; remnants of some kind of label to front free endpaper (but no other instutional markings); else Very Good to Very Good (-) in in Very Good(-) work, partly soiled DJ in archival Brodart protective jacket.. Medium octavo in dark blue cloth stamped and illus in red; yellow illus DJ; 161 p. : ill. ; 24 cm; maps to lining-papers; bibliographical references (p. 161). A handsome, high-quality production on good paper stock with numerous b& w photos and design motifs (birds). // Native Americans; Indigneous People of North America; Pueblo Indians.  Indians of North America -- Arizona -- Social life and customs.  Indians of North America -- New Mexico -- Social life and customs. .

J.J. Augustin. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. A book that is used but still very attractive .