The North American Indian: The Southwest.; Written, Illustrated, and Originally Published by Edward S. Curtis. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Introductions by Beaumont Newhall and Fred Eggan

Santa Fe, N.M.: Classic Gravure Corporation, 1980. Three volumes: Text volume: xx, 153, [2] pp. Portrait frontispiece. Errata slip tipped in at rear. 35.5x25 cm (14x10"). Small portfolio: Five contents leaves and 75 gravure plates from photographs by Edward Curtis, one with hand-coloring. 34x28.5 cm (13¼x11¼"). Large portfolio: Contents leaf and 36 gravure plates from photographs by Edward Curtis. 59.5x48.5 cm (23½x19"). Uniformly bound, as issued, in full brown calf, lettered in gilt, portfolios cloth-lined and with ribbon ties. No. 47 from an announced edition of 228 sets (of which only 99 were actually produced). The text and selection of plates are abridged from Volumes, 1, 2, 12, 16, & 17 of Curtis's famed twenty-volume magnum opus "The North American Indian." Slight scuffing to the calf, else fine.