The North American Indians Of To-Day
by George Bird Grinnell
with photographs by F. A. Rinehart
(C. Arthur Pearson - First UK Edition, 1900)
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Introduction: A near-Very Good ex-library First UK Edition of this fascinating illustrated account of the native North Americans at the end of the 19th Century - first published in America by Herbert S. Stone under the title "The Indians Of Today". Illustrated with fifty five full page mono photographic plates of North American Indians taken by F. A. Rinehart during the 1898 Omaha Exposition (the photographs are of Chiefs and other members representing a number of tribes including Arapahoe, Black Feet, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Crow, Sioux - the most famous among them being Geronimo of the Chiricahua Apache). Presented in thirteen Chapters with Chapter headings including "Indian Character", "Beliefs And Stories", "Former Distribution Of The Indians", "The Reservation", "The Agent's Rule", "Education" and "The Red Man And The White".
Library Ownership: Rebound for library use with the remains of a library sheet and a small bar code on the front free endpaper (small area of associated glue abrasion to front pastedown) and a further small amount of paper residue and a repaired closed tear on the following blank page. There are lightly applied circular library stamps on the plain reverse of the plates, the copyright page and the bottom edge of page 99, there is also a number stamp on one of the plain rear endpapers - no further library markings have been noted.
Book Condition - Very Good Minus: Hardback, 4to (approx 11.5 inches / 30 cm tall), 185 pages with fifty five monochrome plates all confirmed present in Good to Very Good condition (pressure marks measuring 3 inch / 4cm to the reverse of the photograph of Yellow Magpie opposite page 14 have resulted in pressure lines being visible on the subject's face - please email us if you would like to see photographs).
Light to moderate general wear to the plain grey library boards and spine (small area of moderate abrasion and a couple pressure lines to the rear board, light general cloth rippling), gilt spine lettering clear and bright, securely bound with hinges fully intact, other than library markings there are no previous ownership inscriptions or annotations, very light to moderate soiling / dusting to the plain edges of the plates and some light finger smudges to a number of the text pages, a couple instances of notable page creasing (this probably occurred during the rebinding process - a small number of pages also have been rebound very slightly crooked), despite these blemishes this book is internally Very Good on lightly edge toned paper in a very clean and clear condition. No dust jacket.
Total weight with packaging just under 1.8 kg.
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The North American Indians Of To-Day by George Bird Grinnell with photographs by F. A. Rinehart (C. Arthur Pearson - First UK Edition, 1900)
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