Reading the fire essays in the traditional Indian literatures of the far west
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. Hardcover. xxi, 250p., first edition cloth boards, as new from the publisher. More
Cat.No: 73408
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. Hardcover. xxi, 250p., first edition cloth boards, as new from the publisher. More
Cat.No: 73408
[Oakland]: Self-published by the artist as A Reynoso Publication, 2005. Pamphlet. [12]p., stapled wraps, 4.25x5.5 inches, old price sticker on rear wrap else very good condition. Comic based on Malaysian folklore. Hapa artist. More
Cat.No: 272868
Halifax NS: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1976. Pamphlet. 59p., b&w exhibition pix with a few site photos and a small number in color, softbound in 9x9 inch slick staple-fastened wraps; nice clean copy, quite sound and entirely unmarked. More
Cat.No: 314652
Rio de Janeiro: Departamento de Assuntos Culturais, 1977. 36p., 6x8.75 inches, text in Portuguese, illustrations, very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Cadernos de Folclore #20. More
Cat.No: 188044
Austin, TX: The Center for Mexican American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 1987. vii, 115p., wraps, 6 x 9 inches, illus. with one photo, a few titles in the bibliography marked in pencil else very good condition. Articles are "Americo Paredes and Modern Mexican American Scholarship", "What is..... More
Cat.No: 248979
Austin, TX: The Center for Mexican American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 1987. vii, 115p., wraps, 6 x 9 inches, illus. with one photo, lightly worn, front wrap soiled else very good condition. Articles are "Americo Paredes and Modern Mexican American Scholarship", "What is Happening to Spanish on..... More
Cat.No: 248994
Washington DC: Self-published by the author, 1978. Hardcover. vi, 105p., a nicely designed item hardbound in 9x6 inch orange cloth boards gilt, not quite "finepress" but a handsome "trade" edition provided with a colophon, limited to 300 exemplars, this being number 263. An earlier (1973) compilation, the first, was distributed..... More
Cat.No: 300009
New York: Crown Publishers, 1993. Hardcover. 108p., 10.25x10.25 inches, personal inscription to a friend & signed by Glenn Robert Smith on the endpaper, preface, foreword, introduction, essay, b&w photos of the artist and the period, color plates of the works, very good first edition boards in dj. African American primitivist..... More
Cat.No: 178971
Melbourne: the gallery, 2002. Oversized Paperback. 72p., coated paperstock with profuse color exhibit photography, minimal text, first edition 11.2x9.4 inch frenchfold wraps; a fine unblemished copy. More
Cat.No: 177141
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1929. Hardcover. xii, 151p. + ilus., no dust jacket. 'Silhouettes' have left corresponding toning on facing pages, but text is not obscured. Black folklore and folk tales, centered on Mississippi, written in dialect. More
Cat.No: 50119
Firenzi: Libreria Salimbeni, 1984. Paperback. 80p., numerous figures in this text, taken from the mass of Pinocchio literature; most of the entries are in Italian, the variously translated items are named in the language at hand but condition is described in Italian. We saw an offering in Esperanto. Saw no..... More
Cat.No: 282214
New York: Phyllis Fogelman Books, 2000. [40]p. children's book, beautifully illus., inscribed by San Souci in gold ink on the dark endsheet, first printing, dj. Retelling of an Arkansas African American folktale, with Bantu roots, for children. More
Cat.No: 83944
Miami: Ediciones Universal, 1977. Paperback. 271p., first edition, bit soiled wraps with a small tear to the top front cover at the spine. Afro-Cuban folklore, by a Cuban exile. Spanish text. More
Cat.No: 79922
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1965. Paperback. xxix, [250]p., no illustrations, a handsome softbound in 9.5x6 inch frenchfold wraps. Mildest signs of handling, a sound square exemplar, covers bear a little dust-soil and numerous mystery flecks, a very good copy: text perfectly clean and unmarked. Based on fieldwork conducted in 1959..... More
Cat.No: 299409
Austin TX: The Oasis Press, 1976. Paperback. 46p., amateur sketch illustrations, double-column English /Spanish text, softbound in 9.5x8.5 inch decorated yellow wraps. Item is in quite good shape, if in general a little dimmed with age: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. One entry seems especially promising to us Warner-Brothers-raised Americans..... More
Cat.No: 319891
Petropolis RJ: Editora Vozes Ltda. 1972. Paperback. 450p., softbound in 8x5.5 inch decorated wraps, covers smudged with mild handling grime, quite clean within pace front endsheets which have been rubber-stamped with Postal Auction and Intercollegial ownerships. Not quite "ex library", no other institutional markings. Sound and square, with good hinges..... More
Cat.No: 298675
Los Angeles: Philosopher’s Press, 1944. Pamphlet. 15, [1]p., wraps. 7.5 x 5 in. Very good. Short story with a mythical retelling of the origins of St. Christopher who helped people cross a dangerous river, as recorded by Julia, Ernest’s second wife. Ernest Seton was a Canadian-American wildlife artist and writer..... More
Cat.No: 308972
Warsaw, Poland: Published for the Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Publications Department of the National Center for Scientific, Technical and Economic Information, 1978. Paperback. 103p., wraps a bit faded else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 294530
Albany: The American Humane Association, 1939. 66p., 5.5x7.75 inches, frontis-piece, very good second edition in green printed paper wraps. A real curiosity: by 'silhouettes' the author means episodes, not art, brief prose chapters averaging three to a page, that relate Francis' outer and inner psychological history. Competent and rather original..... More
Cat.No: 160266
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. Hardcover. 209p., very good first edition, first printing stated in boards and dj. First novel by the Seattle native African American writer. More
Cat.No: 33826
New York: Doubleday, 1994. Hardcover. [32p] 8.5x11 inches, profusely illustrated with Small's drawings, very good first edition, slightly edgeworn dj. Evocation of the John Henry legend for young readers. More
Cat.No: 25311
Berkeley: Center for Open Learning & Teaching, 1975. Pamphlet. 11p., stapled wraps, illus., wraps slightly browned, else very good condition. Folk tale of African herbal medicine by a SWAPO activist who emigrated to the US and taught throughout the Bay Area. More
Cat.No: 157068
New York: The Womans Press, 1923. Hardcover. viii, 152p., previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown endpaper and penned name on free front endpaper, else very good condition. No dust jacket. The publisher was associated with the YWCA. More
Cat.No: 302617
Copenhagen: Nationalmuset / National Museum of Denmark, 1966. Paperback. 266p., illustrated in b&w from period and contemporary photography and images, a few folded plates, handsomely softbound in medium-blue heavy paperstock, text largely in English with occasional cosmopolitan resort to other European languages. Textblock printed with unopened signatures which remain (mostly)..... More
Cat.No: 290264