CURTIS, EDWARD S.
The North American Indian. Volume I.
Written, Illustrated and Published by Edward S. Curtis. Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Lavishly illustrated with 79 (of 79) sepia-toned photogravure plates on Japan vellum, a few with hand-coloring, of Curtis' landmark photographs of Native Americans, this volume documenting the Apache, Jicarillas, and Navaho. Large 4to, 3/4 gilt-lettered morocco, light wear at the edges; internally very clean and bright; top edge gilt. Roth 36; Parr/Badger I 73; Hasselbad 48; Auer 94. one of a planned edition of 500 copies, signed and dated by curtis.
(Norwood, Massachusetts): (The Plimpton Press), 1907