Native Americans from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Washington D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1945. First Edition. Quarto. 29cm. Publisher's original terracotta cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. 465pp. A little minor bumping and wear to extremities, a little discoloration to the cloth here and there, strong and solid with a slight lean. A handsome copy. Internally clean with some light isolated… Read more about this item

Glorieta, New Mexico: Rio Grande Press, 1970. First Thus. Quarto. 28.5cm. Publisher's pale toffee colored boards titled and decorated to spine and front board in black and metallic red. 213pp. Some very light scuffing and soiling to the boards, with a little bumping to the extremities. Strong and solid, a very good copy. Internally clean. Illustrated throughout in color… Read more about this item

Glorieta, NM: Rio Grande Press, 1972. Second Printing. Quarto. 28.5cm. Publisher's cream coloured cloth titled and decorated in metallic red to spine and front board. 408pp. Strong and solid, light wear to extremities, sunned to spine panel, and with some soiling the the light coloured boards. A very good copy with some cosmetic grubbyness. Internally clean. Essentially two works… Read more about this item

Glorieta, NM: Rio Grande Press, 1970. Second Edition. Quarto. 28.5cm. Publihser's grey cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. 309pp. Strong and bright, very light wear, some slight wear to the gilt here and there. A very good copy. Internally clean. A high quality facsimile reprint from the 1908 first edition. 81365.

Glorieta, NM: Rio Grande Press, 1972. Stated Second Edition. Quarto. 28.5cm. Publisher's original leather grained rexine titled and decorated in metallic red, blue and purple to spine and front board. 548pp [numbered] + 248 plates. Clean and bright, a very good copy indeed. A high standard reprint from the almost unobtainable 1902 first edition. 81364.

Somerville, NJ: Clark S. Yowell, (1928). First Edition. Octavo pamphlet, 15pp. Only 90 copies printed. This copy has at some point in its history been bound into an octavo hardcover volume with ca. 100 blank leaves, presumably to provide shelf presence. Red cloth over cloth-covered boards, title faintly stamped on spine; Very Good. An elusive pamphlet; the… Read more about this item

Tucson: David Stuart King, 1968. First, Limited Edition. No. 231 of 250 signed copies. Octavo; gold-toned cloth-covered boards with printed felt wrapper and slipcase; 310pp; illus; folding frontispiece map. A fine, unmarked copy in fine slipcase. Uncommon thus.

Edina, MN: Beaver's Pond Press, 2007. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Pictorial glazed boards (hardcover); no jacket (as issued); 177pp; illus. Fine, apparently unread copy, free of markings or detectable wear.

Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Co, 1980. First Edition. First printing; edition of 350 copies. Octavo. Cloth hardcover in original brown, unprinted dustwrapper; 107pp; photographic illus. Fine copy, with prospectus laid in. No. V in the publisher's series "Hidden Springs of Custeriana.

New York: Harper and Row, 1981. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 204pp. Miniscule spot of rubbing to cloth at base of spine, else a fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $13.95 on front flap), mildly toned at flap-edges but still very Near Fine. A very nice copy. Andrews' first… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1848. Twelfth Edition. Two octavo volumes (23cm). Publisher's vertically-ribbed green cloth, stamped in gilt on fronts and spines; plain endpapers; I: [i]-iv,[2],[v]-[x],[9]-424pp; II: [x],[7]-474pp; vol. I with frontispiece, map, 21 lithographic plates, and in-text wood engravings; vol. II with bifold frontispiece and 45 plates and wood engravings. An attractive set, lightly rubbed with minor… Read more about this item

Independence, CA: Pioneer Publishing Company, 1975. First Edition. Quarto. 29cm. Original blue cloth boards titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 211pp. A near fine copy in dustjacket, unread. Internally clean. A deeply researched history of the oft-forgotten California Volunteer Regiment, who defended California during against all comers during the turmoil of the Civil War and its immediate aftermath. … Read more about this item

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's yellow cloth boards, titled in black, grey, and silver gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 290pp. An exceptionally clean and bright copy with some very light scuffing and wear to the extremities of the dustjacket. A very good copy indeed. Internally clean. A handsome copy of the first book… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co, 1949. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Maroon pebbled cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 87pp; frontispiece and four unnumbered leaves of double-sided photographic plates (halftones). Tight, clean, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, clipped by publisher on all four corners and without printed price; slightly edgeworn with several nicks and closed tears at margins; title… Read more about this item

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1953. First Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's light brown cloth, titled and decorated in dark brown to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 191pp. A bright, handsome copy with slight wear to extremities, light bumping to spine ends, in a clean priceclipped pictorial dustjacket with some light sunning and soiling to the white rear panel,… Read more about this item

Washington DC: United States Cavalry Association, 1936. First Edition. First printing softcover issue. 12mo (19cm). Original card wrappers (softcover); 173pp; illus. Bit of external rubbing and soil; faint marginal dampstain to final 15 or so leaves, else a tight, unmarked copy, Very Good. Account of Bernard's nearly 40-years career as a U.S. Cavalry officer, with accounts of his… Read more about this item

Boston: W.B. Clarke Company, 1910. First Edition. First printings; "Library Edition." Large octavos (25cm) in publisher's blue cloth with printed paper spine labels; top edges gilt; fore- and bottom edges uncut; 528; 625; 703pp. Retired library copies, with card pockets, stamps, and white ink call numbers to spines. Hinges to two volumes tender (over-opened, but holding), still complete and… Read more about this item

[Harrisburg: Telegraph Press, ca 1933]. First Edition. Octavo. Original green cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; x,[1]-143pp; color frontispiece; photographic text illustrations (halftone portraits). Trace of wear to cloth board edges and base of spine; occasional faint thumb-soil to text; still a straight, tight, Very Good or better copy. A rare and sought-after regimental… Read more about this item

Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1976. First Edition. Trade issue. Small octavo (20cm). Printed card wrappers (softcover, as issued) in original glossy pictorial dust jacket; 321pp. Near Fine in a Very Good or better dustwrapper. Text entirely in French.

Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1981. First Edition. First Printing. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Octavo (23.5cm); gray cloth boards titled in silver on a black background; dustjacket; 338pp. Faint rubbing to spine ends, still a Fine copy. The dustjacket has light edgewear with a few brief short tears, Near Fine. Recounting the life of the Arapaho… Read more about this item