Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1984. Octavo. 347 pages. Illustrated blue dust jacket over black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Unclipped dustjacket shows very light shelfwear but no chips or tears. Boards tight and square. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. More
San Diego: Academic Press, 1991. First Edition with full numberline. Small quarto (9.5" x 7.5"); xxvii, 495pp. Maroon buckram with black and silver lettering and illustration. No dust jacket as issued. Boards are clean and square with very faint rubbing along bottom edges. Previous owner's name stamped on front pastedown..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1945. Second Printing. [Publications of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society Vol III] Octavo; x + 126pp, including appendices and bibliography. Burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine. Cloth mildly soiled, with some scratches, and nudging to crown and foot of sunned spine. Lettering darkened on spine..... More
New York: E.J. Brill, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. 292 pages. Signed by author on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Paula and Abe, / with fondest regards. / - Benson." Number 56 in the Numen Bookseries - Studies in the History of Religions. Purple illustrated dust jacket over brown..... More
New York: Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1995. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; xvi, 411pp. Photos and illustrations throughout. Illustrated paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Boards sturdy and square with no significant signs of shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library. More
Bonn: Ludwig Röhrscheid, 1932. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo (24cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's tan printed wrappers; [2],140; [2],52pp.; Vol. II chiefly illus. General minor shelf wear and a hint of dust-soil, small chip at Vol. I spine crown, Vol. II slightly foxed, especially title page, else Very Good overall..... More
Santa Fe: Arena Editions, 2001. First Edition. Quarto (29x25x2.5cm); 192pp. One hundred and nine full-page photographic plates. Ecru cloth with paste-on front panel photograph; gold lettering on front panel and spine. Volume is pristine, As New. Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952), one of the most important photographers of the..... More
Irvine: University of California Fine Arts Gallery, 1976. First Edition. Oblong Quarto (21.5x28cm); unpaginated [20pp] in saddle-stapled format. Twenty reproductions of Curtis plates. Photographic card cover. Expectable slight tanning to white covers and textblock, but virtually no soiling. This exhibit catalog, uncommon in retail, has always been carefully handled;..... More
Buenos Aires: Editorial Viau SRL, 1943; facsimile of volume originally published by R. Ackermann in London in 1820. Limited Reprint Edition of 3470, of which this is No.1489. Quarto; xxviii + 115pp. Twenty-five full-color watercolors reproduced on 24 bound-in plates, including four landscape-format fold-out plates. Broché in cream cardstock, with..... More
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1955. Deuxieme Edition Revue [second revised edition]. Large, thick quarto; publisher's cream pictorial wrappers printed in brown, teal, and black; [6],554pp.; ten leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, numerous maps and plans throughout. Wrappers a bit worn and quite toned, substantial dampstaining..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1870. First American Edition. Octavo (20.5x13.5x3cm); xvi + 380pp, including bibliography and index + 8pp of publisher's prospectuses, including Darwin and Spencer. Four full-page plates and 20 figures. [Sabin 42601] Red ochre publisher's percaline with blind-stamped frames and borders on both panels; gilt..... More
Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1993. First (and sole) Edition, limited to 3500 copies. Quarto (28x21.5x0.5cm); 60pp, including biographies of Inuit artists and bibliography. Color and B&W reproductions, artist portrait photographs, and documents throughout. Coated, illustrated wrappers. Only the slightest signs of faint tanning at wrapper edges. Textblock unmarred..... More
Gainesville, FL: University of Florida / Institute of Archaeology and Paleoenvironmental Studies, 1993. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's staplebound card wrappers; vii,[1],52pp.; illus. throughout. Some toning to wrapper extremities, ownership rubberstamp and signature to front cover, manuscript title and author added along spine edge; overall Very Good, internally clean and sound..... More
First Edition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. First Edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.5"); xii, 200 pages. Illustrated boards. Ex-library with discarded stamp to front free endpaper and library marking blacked out on top edge, but no other library markings or additions. Light shelfwear to covers with a few faint smudges..... More
Rochester, NY: Cruithne Press / Boydell & Brewer, 1994. Large Octavo. 356 pages. Illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket over black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket slightly creased at edges and crown, else fine. Binding is tight and square. Pages unmarked. More
Taipei, Taiwan: Artist Publishing Co., 1990. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's pictorial glossy card wrappers; [6],138pp.; illus. throughout, many printed in color. Wrappers a bit creased, with a solid bump at bottom corner running throughout, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Exhibition catalog to accompany an art show..... More
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's teal cloth, spine lettered in black; xii,308pp.; maps and photographs throughout. Light shelf wear and dust-soil, boards very slightly bowed, else Very Good overall. First published in 1961. More
Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2010. Quarto. 341 pages. Illustrations. Red cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket, as issued. Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Unread. Some wear to plastic shrinkwrap with a few small punctures. A touch of shelfwear to corners of boards. Volume 16 in the..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. 227 pages. Printed dust jacket. Beige boards stamped in black and gilt. Unclipped dust jacket is lightly rubbed at edges. Very light, uneven discoloring of cloth boards. Small crack at bottom of front joint, but boards and binding..... More
Gainesville, FL: University of Florida / Institute of Archaeology and Paleoenvironmental Studies, 1992. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's blue pictorial card wrappers; viii,440pp.; illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit toned at extremities, especially along spine, ownership rubberstamp inside front cover and top textblock edge, else Very Good and sound. More
New York: A. Wessels Company, 1904. Later Printing. Part of the Wessels series "Source Books of American History." Octavo; 219pp, including "Notes to the Legends." Full-color frontispiece portrait of the Cornplanter, with captioned tissue guard. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; front panel blind-stamped with "Source Books of American..... More