North American Indian [Ninth Volume] Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska.Written, Illustrated and Published by Edward S. Curtis. Edited by Fredrick Webb Hodge. Foreward by Theodore Roosevelt. Field Research conducted under the patron

Cambridge, Mass: Plimpton Press, 1913. CURTIS, Edward S.. . Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska.Written, Illustrated and Published by Edward S. Curtis. Edited by Fredrick Webb Hodge. Foreward by Theodore Roosevelt. Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. Cambridge, Mass.: Plimpton Press, 1913.

The ninth volume of Curtis's famed North American Indian. Limited to 500 copies, this being number 437. Printed on the preferred Japan Vellum. Complete. Illustrated with seventy-five sepia-toned photogravure, including frontispiece. One small folio volume (12 1/4 x (truncated) 9 1/2 inches; 310 x 240 mm)). xii, [2, dedication], 227 [1, blank] pp. Text includes transcriptions of language and music. Title-page printed in orange and black.

Bound by H. Blackwell in publisher's three-quarter brown morocco over tan linen-covered boards. Boards double-ruled in gilt. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Some rubbing along board edges and spine extremities, however still a near fine copy. Housed in a matching three-quarter morocco clamshell.

[Together with]

The printed prospectus for The North American Indian (Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Co., 1935), which is for an option for discounted sets. This prospectus is comprised of a tri-fold printed prospectus, two photogravures specimens on paper, and the original pictorial mailing envelope. (12 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches; 314 x 238 mm)

[And]

A complete set of unbound text leaves (without plates) for Volume 19 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1930). xi, [1], 270 pp., Printed on Japan vellum. An unnumbered, out-of-series copy. (12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches; 316 x 244 mm). Housed in a a blue cardboard box.

Edward Sheriff Curtis published The North American Indian between 1907 and 1930 with the intent to record traditional Native American cultures. The work comprises twenty volumes of narrative text and photogravure images. During the production of this volume, Curtis's benefactor, J. Pierpont Morgan, passed away, for which a dedication was included at front. This ninth volume covers the Salishan Tribes of the Coast, the Chimakum and the Quilliute and the Willapa.

Howes C965.

HBS 69382.

$15,000. (Inventory #: 69382)