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142. (Native American). The American Indian Magazine. Vol. IV, No. 1 through Vol. VII, No. 3. Washington, DC: The Society of American Indians (January-March 1916 through Fall 1919). Eleven consecutive issues of this Indian publication, the quarterly journal of The Society of American Indians. The SAI was the first modern lobby for American Indians. It was founded on Columbus Day 1911 by a group of educated, prominent, professional Indian men and women, including Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), a medical doctor and author of Sioux heritage; Arthur Parker, a Seneca anthropologist; and Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-sa), a Sioux writer, among others. The magazine contains numerous contributions by these writers and other Indian and occasional non-Indian contributors; it was first subtitled "A Journal of Race Ideals," which was later changed to "A Journal of Race Progress." An early effort by Native Americans to stand up for themselves within the context of American society and to advocate on their own behalf. The complete volumes IV, V, and VI, for the years 1916, 1917 and 1918, are bound in three separate volumes in brown buckram. The spines bear library notations, and the front pastedowns bear library accession labels and markings. Various pages are blindstamped with the initials "E.R.O." The three issues for 1919 are in their original wrappers, with some chipping to the spines and a few library notations as well. An uncommon and important Native American journal.
143. (Native American). Art and Indian Individualists. Flagstaff: Northland Press (1975). "The Art of Seventeen Contemporary Southwestern Artists and Craftsmen." Edited by Guy and Doris Monthan. Profiles a number of Southwestern Indian artists, with portraits of them and a statement by each about their work. Illustrated with numerous examples of their artwork, both in color and in black and white. This is the limited edition: one of 150 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the editors and 15 of the artists, including R.C. Gorman, Fritz Scholder and Allan Houser. Also signed by Lloyd Kava New, who provides a foreword. Additionally, this copy includes several items by the artists that were given to the former owner. As such, this copy is additionally inscribed by Douglas Hyde; includes both a signed invitation and a signed greeting card from Jerry Ingram; an additional inscription by Charles Loloma, with photographs of him with friends and also of his work; a clipping of Lloyd Kava New's obituary; a promotional card signed by Preston Mononge; an inscription by Tony Da's mother, Anita (Tony Da was ill during the signing); and an autographed note signed by Earl Biss (who is not included in this volume). A beautiful production, and an important book: this was the first major book to recognize the individualist trend in Indian art, a field of collecting that has grown enormously over the last 35 years. Large quarto bound in quarter leather, heavily illustrated. Fine in a fine slipcase. A unique copy of an attractive and seminal book.
144. (Native American). ALEXIE, Sherman. Seven Mourning Songs for the Cedar Flute I Have Yet to Learn to Play. (n.p.): Whitman College Book Arts Lab, 1994. A poem by Alexie, illustrated by James Lavadour, and printed in an edition of 35 numbered copies. Signed by Alexie and Lavadour. Lavadour is part Walla Walla Indian and was a co-founder of the Crows Shadow Institute of Art on the Umatilla Reservation, where he grew up. Approximately 7 1/4" x 14", twine-bound vertically in woodgrain patterned wrappers, printed by Ben Trissel, son of painter, designer and printer Jim Trissel. By far the scarcest of Alexie's publications. We have never seen, nor heard of, another copy being offered for sale. Fine.
145. (Native American). ALEXIE, Sherman. Water Flowing Home. (Boise): Limberlost Press (1996). Poetry. An attractively printed and bound collection done in an edition of 500 copies, of which this is one of 100 numbered clothbound copies signed by the author. Fine without dust jacket, as issued.
146. (Native American). ALEXIE, Sherman. The Man Who Loves Salmon. (Boise): Limberlost Press, 1998. Poetry, a limited edition, attractively printed and bound. Of a total edition of 750 copies, this is one of 100 numbered clothbound copies signed by the author and by the artist Charlene Teters. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued.
147. (Native American). ALEXIE, Sherman and MODICA, Andrea. Real Indians. (NY/Denver): Melcher Media/American Indian College Fund (2003). Portraits by Modica of contemporary Native Americans, with autobiographical statements by the subjects. With a six-page introduction by Alexie. Signed by Alexie at his contribution. Oblong quarto; clothbound with photographic inlay on the front cover. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued.
148. (Native American). ALEXIE, Sherman. How to Create an Agnostic. (n.p.): (University of Washington Libraries)(2008). A broadside poem, about a moment shared with his young son. Printed as a keepsake for attendees of a Friends of the Libraries dinner at which Alexie spoke. One of approximately 200 copies. 3 1/4" x 9", with an overwrap on which is printed the author and the title, inserted into matching envelope. Fine. A scarce ephemeral piece that was never offered for sale.
149. (Native American). (ALEXIE, Sherman). Hanging Loose. Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press (1990-2002). Eight issues (56, 58, 59, 61, 62, 66, 71, 80), each with a contribution (or several) by Alexie, and each signed by Alexie. A little rubbing to 59, and 58 is spine-sunned; else the lot is fine in wrappers. In the first included issue, #56, Alexie has written, "My first poem to be accepted for publication and the second to appear in print."
150. (Native American). (ALEXIE, Sherman). Press Kit for The Business Of Fancydancing. (n.p.): FallsApart Productions, January, 2002. Press kit for the release of the film based on Alexie's first book of stories and prose poems, which was published in 1992. Alexie also directed the film, which won a number of festival awards, including the Jury Award at the Durango Film Festival and two Grand Jury Awards at the L.A. Outfest. Film synopsis; character biographies; cast and crew biographies (including Alexie's); contact information during the Sundance Film Festival; sample artwork for the release; a still shot from the film and a photo of Alexie on the set, signed by Alexie. Also included are two flyers announcing the Seattle premiere, in May, 2002, one of which is signed by Alexie. All elements fine, in folder.
151. (Native American). ARNETT, Carroll. Then. New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press (1965). Poetry by a writer of Cherokee-French descent, also known as Gogisgi. This is his first book. Inscribed by the author: "For ___, who pours good bourbon -- Best wishes, Carroll." Mild edge sunning; near fine in stapled wrappers. Uncommon, especially signed.
152. (Native American). (BEARDY, Jackson). Jackson Beardy: A Life's Work. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery (1993). A trilingual (English, French, Ojibway) exhibition catalog of the Ojibway artist's work, with historical and biographical essays. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Illustrated with numerous reproductions of his artwork, including a number of them in color.
153. (Native American). CONLEY, Robert J. The Rattlesnake Band and Other Poems. Muskogee: Indian University Press, 1984. A bilingual (Cherokee/English) collection, with illustrations by the author. An uncommon early book by this writer who has since published numerous books of fiction, including two that won the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. One of 500 numbered copies, apparently only issued in wrappers. This copy is inscribed by Conley to LaVerne Clark, author of They Sang for Horses: "To L.D. & LaVerne Clark, my very good friends/ Robert J. Conley/[his Cherokee signature]/ Fort Worth TX/ 1986." Spine and edge-sunned; very good. Uncommon; this is the only copy we have seen.
154. (Native American). HOGAN, Linda. Calling Myself Home. (Greenfield Center): (Greenfield Review Press)(1978). Her first book, a collection of poems published by the press started by Joseph Bruchac, an Abenaki, which has published a large number of notable books by Native American authors over the years. Hogan grew up in part in Oklahoma, on land the Chickasaws were relocated to in the 19th century. She has won numerous awards for her writings, including a Lannan Foundation Award, and her 1990 novel Mean Spirit, based on the brutal exploitation of Native Americans during the Oklahoma oil boom of the 1920s, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A scarce book. Fine in wrappers.
155. (Native American). HOGAN, Linda and HENDERSON, Charles Colbert. That Horse. (Acomita): Acoma Press, 1985. A collection of stories by Hogan derived from a tale her father and grandfather used to tell. Her father's version (by Charles Colbert Henderson) is the first one in the collection; the rest of the writing is by Hogan. This issue measures 9 1/2" x 5 7/8". Fine in wrappers.
156. -. Same title. This copy measures 9 1/2" x 5 3/4". If this is a true issue point, with a narrower outer margin, no priority has been determined. Fine in wrappers.
157. (Native American). LIPPS, Oscar H. Our National Indian Problem and the Chief Factors in Its Solution. (Chilocco, OK): Chilocco Indian Vocational School, [c. 1933]. Lipps, Superintendent of the Sacramento Indian Agency, argues that the Indian should be, and must be willing to be, part of the American melting pot with the "Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, Hawaiians and other brown races enrolled in our private colleges and universities, frequently enduring privation and social ostracism." Illustrated; near fine in stapled wrappers. A fresh, attractive copy. Printed by Indian students at the Oklahoma vocational school.
158. (Native American). PIERRE, Chief George. Autumn's Bounty. Des Moines: Amerindic Lore Press, 1959. The true first edition of this novel by Pierre, a chief of the Colville Confederated Tribes of Washington state, dealing with the controversial question of "termination" -- the ending of federal control over Indian reservations and the resultant freedoms, and losses, the policy would entail. Later published in a trade edition by Naylor in 1972, this is an apparently self-published hardbound typescript, printed on rectos only, stamped "first edition" on the title page and cover. Inscribed by the author: "To George Nack, my favorite kind of people, with fond thoughts always - George Pierre." Tapebound, gilt stamped velour boards. Fine. Laid into a near fine publisher's folding box with illustrated pastedowns depicting a map of the U.S. - Canadian border area in which the novel takes place. Rare. Comparison with the later edition (a copy of which is included) shows this version to represent an early draft of the 1972 novel. Chief George Pierre died in 2011 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. This is the only copy of this early version of his book we have seen, predating the Naylor edition -- itself somewhat uncommon -- by 13 years.
159. (NORMAN, Howard). Kuksu, Nos. 5 & 6. (Nevada City): (Kuksu Press)(1976-1977). Two issues of this "Journal of Backcountry Writing," each with a Swampy Cree translation by Norman: "Who Caught Stubborness [sic] from Jays" was later collected in Northern Tales; "Fragments of a Tale, a Nomenclature of 'Wandering'" may remain uncollected. Each issue is signed by Norman at his contribution. Foredge and top edge staining; else each is near fine in wrappers. For both:
160. OATES, Joyce Carol. Last Days. NY: Dutton (1984). A collection of stories. Warmly inscribed by Oates to author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife, in the year of publication. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with just a bit of fading near the crown.
161. OFFUTT, Chris. Working Copy of Kentucky Straight. (Castle Rock): Bella Luna (1992). Copyedited typeset sheets for an apparently never-produced limited edition of Offutt's first book, a collection of stories published in 1992 as a paperback original in the Vintage Contemporaries series. One full set (140 pages) and five partial sets (approximately 270 pages). With copyeditor's marks throughout. 8 1/2" x 11" sheets, printed on rectos only. A few marks where rubber bands once lay; near fine, in manuscript box. Offutt's book received high praise from critics; on the strength of it and his 1993 memoir, The Same River Twice, he was named one of the "20 best young American writers" by Granta magazine. Presumably unique.
162. OFFUTT, Chris. Out of the Woods. (NY): Simon & Schuster (1999). Inscribed by Offutt to another writer and his wife in 1999: "I walked [Out of the Woods] to write these [Stories]. Hey, here we are in Kentucky, next in France!" Fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice literary association.
163. (ONDAATJE, Michael). Poets Between the Wars. (Toronto): McClelland and Stewart (1967). Ondaatje's copy of this paperback anthology. Signed: "Michael and Kim Ondaatje/ London, August '67." Laid in is a manuscript fragment in Ondaatje's hand (likely used as a bookmark), which reads: "cf. [compare] [Robert] Frost and [Archibald] Lampman as Nature Poets -- show (in [words torn here] etc, Woodcutter's Hut [a Lampman poem]." The anthology is spine-sunned; near fine in wrappers. The fragment is edge-sunned and unevenly torn, about four square inches. An early (legible) Ondaatje signature, from the same year The Dainty Monsters, his first book, was published.
164. OWENS, Iris. Manuscripts and Typescripts. c. 1985-1986. Multiple typescript and holograph drafts of three articles for the magazine Art & Antiques. Fourteen pages on the subject of combs (and "the magical powers of women's hair"), with a vast number of holograph corrections; approximately 68 pages on the subject of rocking chairs (and the American romance with), again with vast reworkings and countless false starts; and 23 pages on the painter Francois Boucher and his relationship with Madame de Pompadour, and again including several heavily corrected drafts. Together with two checks endorsed by Owens, from the editor at Art & Antiques. Also together with a typed letter signed by Owens to the editor, pleading her case against any published repudiation of points in her article on Boucher by a Boucher authority. The letter is folded in thirds and has holes in several of the "o's" from the impact of the typewriter key; otherwise fine. The drafts are very near fine or better: several pages are written on legal size paper and have been folded over to fit into a letter-sized folder. Iris Owens was the author of the novel After Claude, which has come to be seen as an underground classic. In the 1950s she went to Paris where she was friends with Alexander Trocchi, avant garde writer, junkie, and editor of the magazine Merlin. A provocative proto-feminist who routinely defied boundaries and conventions, she supported herself writing pornography for Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press under the pen-name Harriet Daimler, the work often centered around rape fantasies. Reportedly she was the only writer Girodias ever asked to "tone it down." Owens died in 2008 and After Claude was reissued in 2010 by New York Review Books, with an introduction by Emily Prager. For all: