Apr 14, 2022 - Sale 2601

Sale 2601 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 32,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868-1952)
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 Van Gelder paper of Curtis' landmark photographs of Native Americans. A few with hand coloring. This volume documenting the Apache, Jicarillas, and Navaho. Large 4to, 3/4 gilt-lettered morocco; 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, THIS NUMBER 67, SIGNED AND DATED BY CURTIS.
(Norwood, Massachusetts): (The Plimpton Press), 1907

Additional Details

Acquired from Flury and Company, Seattle, Washington in 1982. This volume was in the collection of Bryson Library and Teachers College, New York, New York, a gift of Mrs. Cleveland Dodge.