Native Americana from Carpe Diem Fine Books

Pasadena, CA: George Wharton James, 1909. Fourth Edition Revised and Enlarged. Hardbound. 8vo. 271, [1]; 136, [8] pp. Bibliography; Appendix; Index. Hundreds of illustrations. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Light wear to extremities; previous owner name; a very good copy.

Bismarck, N.D.: Bismarck Tribune Company, 1916. First Edition. Tall 8vo. 200 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author; black & whtie illustrations. Grey cloth with color design of a Sioux chief in war bonnet on upper front and bleck lettering in publisher's grey dustjacket with the same design. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (slight darkening to covers; minor… Read more about this item

St. Paul, MN: Great Northern Railroad, 1947. First Edition. Oblong small 4to. 12 pp pamphlet by Frank Bird Linderman titled "Out of the North: A Brief Historical Sketch of the Blackfeet Indian Tribe" along with biographical sketches of Reiss and Linderman; 24 color reproductions of noted American artist Winold Reiss' glorious paintings of the Blackfeet Indians, done in brilliant… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 303 pp. Rust colored cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. Fine in fine dustjacket, with a hint of wear; dustjacket flap corners clipped but price is intact; a lovely copy. The source for the 1954 Robert Aldrich movie, "Apache," with a blue-eyed Burt Lancaster portraying the title character and with Jean Peters,… Read more about this item

Chicago, New York & San Francisco: Laidlaw Brothers, 1932. Reprint. Original cloth. Early printing. INSCRIBED to a friend by both authors; original pencil drawing by Edwin Deming. Small 8vo. 191 pp. Pictorial brown cloth with minimal wear; inscription on separate paper pasted inside front board; a near fine copy (light wear to extremities; small white spots on rear board).… Read more about this item

Chicago, New York & San Francisco: Laidlaw Brothers, 1931. Reprint. Original boards. Early printing. INSCRIBED to a friend by both authors; original pencil drawing by Edwin Deming. Small 8vo. 96 pp. Pictorial brown cloth with minimal wear; inscription on separate paper pasted inside front board; a near fine copy (light wear to extremities). The authors lived intimately with various… Read more about this item

Shafter, CA: Published by the author, 1936. First Edition, Limited Edition #4 of 10 copies printed on special paper and hand-bound by the Santa Barbara Bindery (as noted by the author in his own hand). SIGNED by Latta. 8vo. 209 pp. 34 photo-plates. Latta's business card as Director of the Kern County Museum laid in. Maroon half-leather spine over… Read more about this item

New York: American Folk-Lore Society, 1940. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. x, 296pp, including bibliography and index. Red cloth covered boards; gilt titles to the spine. All edges neat and clean; slight wear to spine ends; light spine fading. Near fine. Contents include: The Origin Myth; Tales of Encounters with Supernatural Beings; Tales of Encounters with monsters; information on… Read more about this item

New York: J. J. Augustin, 1939. 1st. Half leather. First Edition. 4to. xvi, 83 pp. Frontispiece, 24 color silk-screen printed plates, portrait etching of the artist Miguelito by H. F. Kraus, numerous text illustrations. Half brown morocco over brown cloth boards, gilt design to front cover; housed in uncommon publisher's slipcase with printed labels to front cover & spine.… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1907. 2nd. Leather bound. INSCRIBED "To Inez Ray Smith/with the compliments & good/wishes of a fellow lover of the/Indian/George Wharton James." Second Edition. 8vo. xxi, 268pp + [3] advertisements pp. Bibliography. Black & white photo-illustrations (including frontispiece with tissue guard). Three-quarter green morocco and cloth, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. From the library of… Read more about this item

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. 1st. Hardcover. Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket (price clipped). First Edition. Octavo; xi, 380 pages.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975. 1st. Hardcover. Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Octavo; xx, 260 pages. Civilization of American Indian Series.

Pasadena, CA: George Wharton James, 1920. New Edition. Enlarged and Revised with New Illustrations. Cloth. Minor wear to extremities; small bump lower front cover otherwise near fine.. Octavo. 124pp. Numerous black & white photo-illustrations. Black cloth with gilt lettering.

Santa Fe: The Peripatatic Press, 1941. 1st. Hardcover. Limited Edition 400 copies. Square octavo. 178pp. Striking serigraphs depicting 10 Zuni ceremonial masks reproduced in color; 20 line drawings of life in the pueblo and initial letters by Fanita Lanier. Grey cloth with green & silver lettering in grey printed dustjacket. Printed on Strathmore Text at the Rydal Press. A… Read more about this item

New York: New York University Press, 1964. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED on half title 'Inscribed for John Caughey/who perhaps started it all for me by publishing/my first historical article in the/Pacific Historical Review fifteen years/ago Art(?) Washburn/May 12, 1967 (Plannin Conference/American Indian History). Octavo; xxiii, 480 pages. Fine copy (bookplate of author/historian John Caughey to fffep) in a… Read more about this item

Norman, OK, 1939. Advance Copy. Softcover. Jacket over thin plain wrappers (soiled with some rubbing; slight wear to extremities; price-clipped) otherwise very good plus condition.. Octavo. (xxiii) 319pp. Photo-illustrations; map; folding genealogical chart. Grey wrappers in decorative dust jacket with blue lettering. A series of letters printed exactly as written providing first hand accounts of the western Cherokees… Read more about this item