ITEM # 23080 WARFARE ON THE COLONIAL AMERICAN FRONTIER . THE JOURNALS OF MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS & AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDITION AGAINST THE OHIO INDIANS IN THE YEAR 1764 , UNDER THE COMMAND OF HENRY BOUQUET , ESQ PUB BY DRESSLAR PUBLISHING . Reprinted from a rare 1769 Dublin printing of the combined Rogers journal and Bouquet's account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians. BOOK IS NEW , IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP [ AM HIST ] View More...
Very clean soft cover -- no defect of note. Measures 8-1/2"x11" and has 133 pages. Provides a complete listing of Native Amercan books and resources in the library's collection for both children and adults, including fiction, nonfiction and reference, plus periodicals, pamphlets, microfilm, cassettes, filmstrips, films and videos. View More...
Very nice clean, tightly bound book with just a small shadow from an earlier price sticker at upper fornt corner.Book has no spine crease and no names or wriitng. Pristine text throughout. Measures 8"x10-3/4" and has 108 pages plus a list of other papers available. A study of the Ramah Navaho. View More...
Crisp and dean inside and out. Book is bound in paper over boards with lamination which matches the dustjacket. There are no names or writing and no tears tor chips on jacket which will arrive in a brand new mylar cover. Has not been price-clipped. Book measures 6-1/2" x 9-1/2" and has 143 pages printed on qualiy coated paper. There are also many color photographs, including stunning two page, full page scenes. The book tells the story of the author's injuries in a horse accident. Though doctors told her to give up ridding, but instead she learned from the Lakotas of the healing powr of horses... View More...
ITEM # 5838 SUSQUEHANNA'S INDIANS BY BARRY KENT PUB 1989 BY PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL AND MUSEUM COMMISSION 438 PGS 6 X 9 CARD COVER A DETAILED LOOK AT THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE NATIVE PEOPLE OF THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY OF PENNSYLVANIA . EXTENSIVE TEXT AND MANY PHOTOS OF NATIVE MADE AND EUROPEAN MADE TOOLS ARMS , POTTERY AND MUCH MORE BOOK IN FINE CONDITION , CLEAN BRIGHT AND TIGHT , NO MARKS OR TEARS [ NATIVE AM] View More...
Beautiful little book, part of an ongoing series, one volume of which has been published each year since 1903 by R.R. Donelley to be given to customers, stockholders ,and employees as Christmas keepsakes. The first time these enter the marketplace it's the SECONDARY marketplace. The color changes every 25 years -- this is from the navy blue series. Book measures 4-1/2"x7", has a gilded top edge and 461 pages. Illustrated. The foreword offers a sort of "State of the Union" in which the company reported on the death of the previous year's book's editor Milo Quaife, as well as th... View More...
ITEM # 8387 THE ZUNIS OF CIBOLA BY C. GREGOTY CRAMPTON PUB 1977 BY U. OF UTAH PRESS 201 PGS 9 X 10 1/24 HARD BACK EXTENSIVE TEXT AND MANY B & SW PHOTOS MAKE AN EXAMINATION & PORTRATE OF THE ZUNI WITH HISTORICAL DOCUMENTATION . BOOK AND D.J. ,IN MYLAR , IN FINE CONDITION [ ANTHRO ] View More...
This book, and the other annual books of Lakeside Classic, s were given as Christmas keepsakes to friends of the Lakeside Press. Every 25 years the binding is given a new color. The book is a reprint of an original which was written by Margaret Irvin Carrington, an officer's wife who kept a journal of her stay in the outposts of the West. She jotted down notes on scenery and the inhabitants of Absaraka, which was located in present-day Wyoming, Montana, and the western Dakotas. The book measures 4-1/2" x 7" and has 354 pages including index. No bumps to boards, no names or wiring and clean... View More...
THE STORY PREHISTORIC OHIO NATIVE POTTERY AND VIETZEN'S QUEST TO RECOVER IT THE AUTHOR OF NUMEROUS BOOKS VIETZEN WAS WIDLEY KNOWN FOR HIS RESEARCH AND HIS MUSEUM IN NORTHEN OHIO 310 PGS. DOZENS OF B.&W. PHOTOS AND DRAWINGS BOOK VERY GOOD D.J. FAIR WITH SOME FOXING AND CHIPS NOW IN NEW MYLAR View More...
Book is crisp, clean and attractive with no defects of nite No fading to gilt , no exterior wear, no names or writing, and pristine pages and page edges . The Lakeside Classics are reprints issued annually to stockholders and other friends of the press as Christmas keepsakes. The first time they appear for sale is on the secondary market. The binding color changes ever 25 years. Book measures 4-1/2"x7" and have gilded top edges. Edited by noted historian Milo Quaife. 626 pages including index.. Handsome illustratiosn too with tissue guards. We have many titles from the red colle... View More...
Very hard to find book in excellent condition. Crisp and clean as a whistle inside and out. Photo of author is tipped in and there is a long inscription by him to former owner, a doctor from Toledo, Ohio. "A synopsis, manifested by original terra cotta domestic receptacles as found in the Northeast Woodland pattern." Compares and analyzes eleven intact, thirty restored and seven casts of Indian vessels. Photo illustrated, including eight plates of prehistoric and contact Indian burials. 120 pages. View More...
Crisp, BRAND NEW book. Measures 6"x9" and is illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and maps. Originally published in 1998 and offered here in the new edition with new Afterword by the author. Tells the story of the only battlefield code of WWII that the Japanese failed to decipher and the men who both created it and used it toward U.S. victory. 130 pages. Indexed. TWO like copies available. View More...
Beautiful, crisp book with no bumps and snow white pages and page edges.Dustjacket is likewise nice save price-clip and looks most most handsome in brand new mylar. Attractive map endpapers. SIGNED and inscribed on title page. Massive book by a respected Ohio historian who utilized no less than 850 sources to construct a scholarly, yet accessible, work replete with extensive amplification notes at back of book. .862 pages. Indexed. Eckert died in 2011. He has been named Ohio's Favorite Author of all Times. Several SIGNED Eckert titles available. View More...
Very clean, attractive book with no bumps to boards and no price clip. Jacket is likewise nice with no tears or chips. Looks very handsome in brand new mylar cover. Book is SIGNED and inscribed on half title page thus "To -----------, All the Best! Allan W. Eckert". Book is the fourth title in The Winning of America series.Narrative begins in 1763 where the previous tuitle, Wilderness Empoire, ended with the englsih victory over the French in the French and Indian War. 496 pages. Nice map endpapers. Other titles SIGNED by Eckert available. View More...
Beautiful little book, part of an ongoing series, one volume of which has been published each year since 1903 by R.R. Donelley to be given to customers, stockholders ,and employees as Christmas keepsakes. The first time these enter the marketplace it's the SECONDARY marketplace. The color changes every 25 years -- this is from the navy blue series. Book measures 4-1/2"x7", has a gilded top edge and 375 pages. Illustrated. The foreword offers a sort of "State of the Union" in which the company reported on the death of Thomas Donnelley, founder of the Lakeside Classics series an... View More...
ITEM # 8331 THE TUTELO SPIRIT ADOPTION CEREMONY RECLOTHING THE LIVING IN THE NAME OF THE DEAD BY FRANK SPECK PUB 1942 BY PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 125 PGS 6 X 9 PAPER BACK INCLUDES " TRANSCRIPTIONS AND ANALYSIS OF TUTELO MUSIC" BY GEORGE HERZOG STARTING IN VA. THIS NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE WAS FORCED NORTH BY VARIOUS WARS FROM THE 1600'S ON AND FINALLY SETTLEING IN CANADA BOOK IN VERY GOOD CONDITION [ NAT. AM . / ANTHROPOLOGY ] View More...
Instructional DVD in nice, clean case. Runs 70 minutes and teaches the art of moccasin making, particularly that of the Woodland Indians. Topics discussed include techniques to make both center seam and wide vamp pucker toe styles. From pattern making to stitching. Much detail for the reeanctor. View More...
Crisp, beautiful book, as new. No names or writing, no tears or chips, no bumps to boards. Dustjacket protected by brand new mylar cover. Measures 7-1/2"x10-1/4". williarrive protected by brand new mylar cover. Illustratee in black and white with photographs and drawings. An in-depth look at the Big House Ceremony, the most important Delaware religious observance to be historically documented. It was celebrated in the fall in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and went to Ontario and Oklahoma. 213 pages. View More...
Five very nice magazines, all four present from 1996 plus the last issue of 1995 which I included because it contains Part I of an article about The First Northwest Trade Gun. Part II is in the 1996 No. 1 issue. Only fault to magazines is a small smudge to top edge of No. 4. Otherwise pristine. Magazines measure 7"x10" and have 16 pages each. Other topics include Jean Baptiste Pratt; fur traders' letters; chief coats supplied by the American Fur Company; the Monhonk Lodge, American trade goods; Indian Department marked issue blanket; voyage on the Mississippi; interesting facts on the Jededi... View More...
Book is crisp, clean and bright with no bumps to boards and no names or writing. Pages and page edges pristine..The dustjacket has not been price-clipped and is without egregious fault. Only defect is a very small chip to lower back corner. Looks most handsome in brand new mylar cover. Book is printed on quality coated paper and the art is a combination of black and white drawings and full color paintings. Lovell says of himself , "I'm a story teller with a brush." Book measures 9-1/2"x12-1/4" and has 160 pages. View More...
