$21,330
Curtis, Edward S. (1868-1952), The North American Indian. Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing The Indians of the United States, The Dominion of Canada, and Alaska , Norwood, Massachusetts: The Plimpton Press, 1930, first edition, original gilt-lettered and lined three-quarter crushed brown morocco by H. Blackwell, volume XIX in both 4to and folio, number 97 of 500 on Van Gelder paper, the first with seventy-five sepia toned photogravures, two in color; folio with thirty-six large scale photographs, loose as issued in original folio, (both bindings slightly worn, no stamps to 4to plates, but some minor library markings and a perforation to one text page, folio with all plates stamped just along the edge of the lower left corner, some touching image). These two volumes chronicle the Wichita, Southern Cheyenne, Oto and the Comanche.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-11-14
