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1 Matthiessen, Peter Indian Country
New York, NY The Viking Press 1984 0670397873 / 9780670397877 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good  Very Good Endpaper Maps 
338 pp, quarterbound w/light tan papercovered boards w/red cloth spine w/gilt lettering, grey-blu-tan-brn dj. The author explores ten important instances where the white man's encroachments upon the sacred grounds of Indian tribes show the tragic effects of a confrontation that is bound to harm both sides. He goes to the lands of the Miccosukee, Hopi, Cherokee, Mohawk, Yurok & Karuk of the Pacific Northwest, Lakota, Chumash, Paiute, Shoshone & Ute of Great Basin, and Navajo.  
Price: 20.40 USD
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2 Ward, Evelyn D. w/essay by Matthiessen, Peter The Children of Bladensfield
New York, NY The Viking Press 1978 0670216615 / 9780670216611 Hard Cover Very Good  Good Photos 
141 pp, quarterbound w/light brown boards w/dark brown spine w/gilt lettering, geneaolgy chart on the rear free endpapers, copied letters on the front free end papers, dj dark brown w/wht lettering w/pictorial front & rear panels. A Sand Dune Press Book. Evelyn War lived with her large family at Bladensfield and her memoirs during the CIvil War were prepared for future generations. She describes the beauty adn tranquillity of life at Bladensfield before the War. Pmatthiessen, one of the "children of Bladensfield," tells of his return there, of the Ward cousins and ow what has happened there since the Civil War. dj price-clipped, rubbed and some wrinkling along the edges, chipped at the dj corners.  
Price: 29.75 USD
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3 Matthiessen, Peter Under the Mountain Wall : a Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Ice Age
New York, NY The Viking Press 1962 First Edition, 2nd State Hard Cover Very Good  Good+ Photos 
xvi, 256 pp, xxxii, black cloth covered boards w/blind stamped front board w/gilt-green lettering on the spine, dj black w/light brown-orange lettering w/pictorial front, green-wht-grey illustrated map front endpapers & illustrated rear endpapers of mountain wall. The photos are located in correct order after page 160 & the rear endpapers are correct. States book club edition at bottom of the tipped in table of contents. volume has price printed on the upper corner of the front flap. Contains 85 plates. This volume is an account of people that were untouched by civilization in Baliem Valley, New Guinea, the Kurelus. They were studied by the Harvard-Peabody Expedition for two seasons of 1961. It follows them at work, play & war, gardening, wood-gathering, feasts & funerals, pig-stealing and ambush. It shows their stone & wood implements being made & used. prev owner's embossing stamp on half title page, small chips on dj corners, bump center top edge of front board.  
Price: 136.00 USD
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