AMERICAN THE LIFE STORY OF A GREAT INDIAN by Frank Linderman - 1930

Hardcover missing dust jacket - ex-lib; assumed first 1930 (no additonal editions); paste down, library stamp and inscription all on inside cover; front free end paper has library card and dewy number; inside back cover has library stamp; text has faint library stamp on bottom page block and top page block is darkening; binding is tight but slightly cocked, front hinge is cracking on front cover; covers have minor wear; title on spine has faded and appears to have been written in by previous owner in white ink -- Dependable seller since 1994, daily shipping with tracking from our brick and mortar store in Madison, Wisconsin.

John Day Company, 1931. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: John Day, 1931. Third printing, dated January, 1931. The story of Plenty-Coups, Chief of the Crows. The spine is slightly slanted. The spine lettering is faded but legible. In a sound binding with hinges intact.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by H. M. Stoops. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

John Day, 1930. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In brown cloth. No jacket. Light rubbing. .

1930T. unknown_binding. Very Good. in x in x in. From the library of Cecil B. De Mille. Has Cecil B De Mille's persoanl bookplate on the inside front board, Home-made dust cover.

New York; (1930): John Day Plenty Coups Indians. First Edition. Octavo. 313 pages. Inscribed "To /E. Howard Atchley/, Like this old 'Injun' if/ you can, /Frank B. Linderman /1930. Illustrated by H.M. Stoops. While the vast majority of Americans had regarded Indians as savages, Frank Linderman of Montana promoted positive views of Indians. This began when Plenty Coups, the last traditional chief of the Crow Indians, recounted his life to Frank Bird Linderman in 1928. Though Plenty Coups was now aged 80, he recounted the vision that had set his course in life. When he was about twenty, he said, he had visited a traditional Crow site in the Crazy Mountains and seen himself as an old man. Stamped on page 44: Green Fields, Double A Ranch, Tucson. This book is inscribed to the City Engineer of Tucson, G. Howard Atchley. The plan in the early 20's was to take the old pueblo which had become an unplanned city and create some zoning standards to both protect its history and create modern standards for the… Read More