Nicholas Bornoff

Perrin Lindelauf

Ken Shimizu

2013. Clean, tight. If you don't mind the weight (1.5 #) by all means, take this book with you to Japan. What I did, though, is pour through it, and make a note of the links for the places I was planning to visit, and use my phone as a gps.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Arizona

Highlights the history, culture, and contemporary life of the country while offering mapped walking and driving tours and complete visitor information.

National Geographic Traveler: Japan, 4th Edition

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2014. This book was my saving grace on my first trip to Japan. It's published by the company that sells the Japan Rail pass. Plan ahead! Get the book, and unless you have a driver lined up, you'll be traveling by train, so the most economical way is to get the pass.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Travel Guide by Japan Experience

Japan by Train

J. Brent Ricks

Frederick J. Dockstader

Alexander E. Anthony

1997 second printing. Clean, tight. New Demco cover. Has that old book smell, but not musty or nasty.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Spirit Beings of the Hopi

The Hopi Indians have had Kachinas in their religion for probably more than 1000 years. The Kachinas are a prominent part of the religion and daily life of the Hopi. The Kachinas depicted in this book were painted by Neil David, Sr., a Hopi-Tewa from First Mesa. The paintings show both the front and the back of each Kachina, i.e.the entire costume of the Kachina. The descriptions are by various Hopi who discuss the differences in the Kachinas as they appear on each of the three mesas where the Hopi make their home.

Kachinas

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Christy G. Turner

Jacqueline A. Turner

1999 University of Utah Press. Clean, tight. New Demco cover.

Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest

Using detailed osteological analyses and other lines of evidence, this study of prehistoric violence, homicide, and cannibalism explodes the myth that the Anasazi and other Southwest Indians were simple, peaceful farmers.

Man Corn

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J. J. Brody

1977 stated first edition. Clean, tight binding. New Demco cover. Has that old book smell, but not offensively so.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Mimbres Painted Pottery

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Carroll L. Riley

2005 first edition. Clean, tight. New Demco cover. Explores the relationship between the Hohokam, Anasazi,  and Mogollon to the cultures south of the border.

Mesoamerican Ingluence in the Greater Southwest, A. D. 1200-1500

An extensively illustrated and ambitious overview of the continuities in culture between the American Southwest and the adjacent northwest of Mexico supported by an argument that a drastic socio-religious transformation occurred in the Southwest region during a period called Aztlan.

Becoming Aztlan

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David R. Abbott

2003 first printing. Some highlighting. PO's name etc on front flyleaf. Clean, tight. New Demco cover.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Presents findings based on new data from major excavations in Phoenix suggesting that the Classic Period at Pueblo Grande was a time of decline for the Hohokam, marked by overpopulation, environmental degradation, resource shortage, poor health, and social disintegration.

Centuries of Decline During the Hohokam Classic Period at Pueblo Grande

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Published  1987 and 1989, respectively.  Clean, no markings or notes.

Chaco Canyon Architecture; Chacoesque: Chaco-like Great Pueblo Architecture Outside Chaco Canyon

Chaco Architecture Bundle

Dennis Slifer

James Duffield

1994 inscribed by author. In very good condition, except for the bottom corner, which has been bent a little.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Fluteplayer Images in Rock Art

Both Santa Fe and Taos are well known as important twentieth-century American art colonies. Until the publication of Santa Fe and Taos, their fame rested more upon the reputations of resident and visiting artists than on the contributions of the writers, playwrights and poets who lived side-by-side with the artists. Notable among writers who paid extended visits to the colony were D.H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Thornton Wilder, Carl Sandburg, Sinclair Lewis and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Kokopelli

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Eve Ball

James Kaywaykla

2003 10th printing. University of Arizona Press. 

Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache

A history of the events of the 1870's and 1880's as related by the last remaining Apache survivor of Tres Castillus

In the Days of Victorio

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1931 first edition.  No dust jacket. Binding is sound. Pages are tanned but not brittle. Cocked a little to the right.
The story of the life of a Hopi woman who had been educated by the whites, only to feel estranged from her traditional family.

Hopi Girl

Martin Link

Four Generations of the Day Family

Navajo Country Pioneers

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Jesse W. Fewkes

Art and Archaeology

This reissue of three early essays on Mimbres archaeology and design fills a major gap in the literature on the Mimbres, whose pottery has long fascinated students of the prehistoric Southwest. Fewkes, one of the eminent archaeologists of the early twentieth century, introduced Mimbres art to scholars when he published these essays with the Smithsonian Institution between 1914 and 1924, under the titlesArchaeology of the Lower Mimbres Valley, New Mexico, Designs on Prehistoric Pottery from the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico,andAdditional Designs on Prehistoric Mimbres Pottery.Long out-of-print, these essays represent the first analysis and description of the complex abstract and representational designs that continue to fascinate us 2,000 years after they were painted.

The Mimbres

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Gian Mercurio

Maxymilian L. Peschel

Published in 1994, before our buddy Google existed. An excellent guide for trip planning, especially the information about the cultural rules for visiting some of the sites.
Inscribed by one of the authors on behalf of both.

The Guide to Trading Posts and Pueblos

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William M. Ferguson

Arthur H. Rohn

1994, 6th paperback printing. A fantastic  book to take along on a tour of the southwest.

The Anasazi Indians of the Southwest represent 2,500 years of cultural continuity, from the early Basket Makers of 700BC to their modern descendants, the Pueblo Indians. The pueblos and cliff dwellings they built during their halcyon days between 1100 and 1500AD are the most spectacular ruins north of Mexico. In this book, all of the significant and accessible Anasazi ruins are photographed and described in detail. Special attention is paid to the magnificent sites of Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, and Kayenta. Also included are illustrations of rock art and examples of the delicate jewellery and beautiful ceramics that have survived.

Anasazi Ruins of the Southwest in Color

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Paul Douglas Campbell

2007 first edition,  in excellent condition. Decorative cloth cover. No dust jacket.
All about the paints the various tribes in California used to paint their pottery and their bodies.

Meaning and Technology

This subject is brought together and treated in depth for the first time. Drawing on the best scholarship of others and extensive personal research, the author uncovers the technology and the significance of paint in early Native California. Hundreds of rare photographs parallel the text. Many are of painted 19th century Indians. Others in full color depict an array of ochre-covered artifacts. Images from walls of remote caves transport the reader to a California long past and little known.

Earth Pigments and Paint of the California Indians

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Published in 1992 by the Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, these books are only 16 pages long including the map on the back covers. But they are a concise overview of each of these five ancient cultures that lived in the Southwest. Loads of great photos.
They're in very good condition.

Anasazi, Hohokam, Mogollon, Salado, Sinagua

Prehistoric Cultures of the Southwest Bundle

Christian E. Downum

New in shrink wrap. A wonderful book about the ancie t peoples of northern Arizona and beyond.

Ancient Peoples in a Land Without Water

The national monuments of Wupatki, Walnut Canyon, and Montezuma's Castle showcase the treasures of the first people who settled and developed farms, towns, and trade routes throughout northern Arizona and beyond. The Hopis call these ancient peoples "Hisat'sinom," and Spanish explorers named their hard, arid homeland the sierra sin agua, mountains without water. Indeed, much of the region receives less annual precipitation than the quintessential desert city of Tucson. In Hisat'sinom: Ancient Peoples in a Land without Water, archaeologists explain how the people of this region flourished despite living in a place with very little water and extremes of heat and cold. Exploiting the mulching properties of volcanic cinders blasted out of Sunset Crater, the Hisat'sinom grew corn and cotton, made and traded fine cotton cloth and decorated ceramics, and imported exotic goods like turquoise and macaws from hundreds--even thousands--of miles away. From clues as small as the tiny fingerprints left on children's toys, post holes in the floors of old houses, and widely scattered corn fields, archaeologists have pieced together an intriguing portrait of what childhood was like, the importance of weaving cotton cloth, and how farmers managed risk in a harsh environment. At its peak in the late 1100s, Wupatki stood as the region's largest and tallest town, a cultural center for people throughout the surrounding region. It was a gathering place, a trading center, a treasury of exotic goods, a landmark, and a place of sacred ritual and ceremony. Then, after 1200, people moved away and the pueblo sank into ruin.

Hisat'sinom

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John D. Nesbitt

Stories of a Golden West

Seasons in the Fields SIGNED FIRST

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George Forty

Nice and clean, with dj cover. Lots of photos.

The Allied Drive from Normandy

This is a record, move-by-move and day-by-day, of the Allied counter-attack from the D-Day beaches through to the taking of Berlin, with photographs specially selected from the Imperial War Museum and other archive sources. The photographic approach vividly chronicles the tortuous progress the Allies made across Europe to reach their final objective - Berlin, the crumbling headquarters of the broken German war machine.

Road to Berlin

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Alma M. Gilbert

Judith B. Tankard

2000 Ten Speed Press first printing. Pictorial history of the artists' colony in Cornish, New Hampshire.
Dust jacket is starting to delaminate on the back.

The Artists and Gardens of the Cornish Colony

Art historian Alma M. Gilbert and garden historian Judith B. Tankard pay homage to Cornish, NH, with profiles of the artists who lived there and the gardens they designed.

A Place of Beauty

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Light from Arcturus is like new. The Quarry is excellent, but has remainder mark and a pink spot on the leading edge.
Both are first Bison Books Printing 1995.

Light from Arcturus; The Quarry

Mildred Walker Bundle

W. Hodding Carter

The story of a journey to reenact Leif Eriksson's voyage to the New World.

In Which an Unlikely Crew of Adventurers Attempts an Epic Journey to the New World

W. Hodding Carter admits he cannot sail a Sunfish, hates to be cold, and panics when he's lost. So why did Carter devote three years of his adult life, not to mention a small fortune, to dodging polar bears and icebergs on an open-decked wooden ship resembling an over-sized canoe? He wanted to be a Viking. Obsessed since childhood with Leif Eriksson and his triumphant voyage a thousand years ago from Greenland to North America, Carter hatched the admittedly crazy idea of reenacting Erikson's voyage in a replica of the precarious square-rigged Viking cargo ship known as a knarr. Never mind that he had a wife, twin daughters, and another baby on the way. Carter was going to make it happen. This enthralling, inspiring, occasionally hair-raising, and genuinely hilarious book is the account of how he pulled it off. With funding from Lands' End and expertise gleaned from Viking enthusiasts all over the world, Carter had the knarr constructed by an eccentric boat builder on a small Maine island. He then arranged to have the Snorri, as he dubbed the craft, shipped to the southern tip of Greenland, where he and his grab-bag crew of eleven would embark in midsummer. The departure was inauspicious, to say the least: for two solid weeks, the Snorri tacked back and forth in the windy fjord by Erik the Red's ancient farm, covering a grand total of eighty miles. Although that first attempt ended in defeat in the middle of the Davis Strait, Carter, his prudent red-haired captain, and their crew were not about to surrender. The next summer, in even worse weather, the Snorri was back on course and these latter-day Vikings were ready to handle anything Mother Nature dished out atop the icy, open sea. Well, almost anything . . . By turns thrilling and slapstick, sublime and outrageous, A Viking Voyage is an unforgettable adventure story that will take you to the heart of the most magnificent, unspoiled territory on earth, and even deeper, to the heart of a journey like no other. A celebration of the people and places Carter visits and a treasure-trove of fascinating Viking lore, this is a mesmerizing story of friendship and teamwork--and of accomplishing a goal that once seemed impossible.

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Becoming Aztlan

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Anasazi Ruins of the Southwest in Color

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Earth Pigments and Paint of the California Indians

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Hisat'sinom

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George Forty

Road to Berlin

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