Between the High Mountains and the Rainbows
Poetry by elementary school children from the Crow Indian reservation, with poems in English and in Crow, which had only recently gained a written form. Illustrated with photographs of the children. Fine in stapled wrappers. Uncommon. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.- $80
- $80
Friends, Pause and Look This Way
DOCHNIAK, Jim Poetry by a Minnesota Dakota, with a three-page preface by him. Apparently these poems were part of a larger work-in-progress, although we haven't seen that to date. Fine in stapled wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.- $20
- $20
Northwest Review: Native American Poetry
This issue features Native American poetry, including work by Leslie Silko (preceding her first book, Laguna Woman), Duane Niatum, Norman Russell, Ray Young Bear and others. Non-Indian contributors include Gary Snyder, William Kittredge, Richard Hugo, and others. Very good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.- $35
- $35
The Remembered Earth
A later edition of an anthology of contemporary Native American literature. With work by Leslie Silko, Maurice Kenny, Peter Blue Cloud, Joseph Bruchac, Adrian Louis, Joy Harjo, Jim Barnes, Linda Hogan, Robert Conley, Carroll Arnett, N. Scott Momaday, Paul Gunn Allen, Simon Ortiz, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Wendy Rose, Duane Niatum, Mary TallMountain, and many, many others -- a virtual Who's Who of American Indian literature in the first generation after Momaday's groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, House Made of Dawn. This is the hardcover issue; there was a simultaneous issue in wrappers. Foxing to top edge; else fine in a very good, edge-worn dust jacket with an abrasion on the rear panel, affecting a blurb by Vine Deloria, Jr. Uncommon in hardcover.- $20
- $20
If I Had My Life to Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies
The advance reading copy (marked "Uncorrected Page Proof") of this collection of prose and poetry by women. Copyeditor's notations on title page. "Press Copy #1457" on cover. Foxing along front cover near spine; else near fine in wrappers. Actual publication date was 1993.- $20
- $20