America's Great Lost Expedition: The Thomas Keam Collection of Hopi Pottery from the Second Hemenway Expedition, 1890-1894 by Wade, Edwin L. and Lea S. McChesney - 1980

Phoenix, Arizona: The Heard Museum, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Signed by Author. Exceedingly scarce in the trade in this state (signed and First Edition), being SIGNED boldly by both authors on 12/11/80 at title page. Good looking, structurally sound copy in tall octavo oblong format, featuring the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fine exhibition catalog from a show that ran in five cities from 1981 and 1982. Duotone illustration at the front cover, then special acknowledgments by Michael J. Fox at the Heard Museum, then a page of fine black-and-white cameo photographs of mary Hemenway, Jesse Walter Fewkes, Alexander M. Stephen, Frank Hamilton Cushing and Thomas V. Keam. A fine monograph devoted to Hopi pottery, primitive ware, polychrome, orange colored ware, red ware, cream-colored ware, transition ware, and more modern productions. Full bibliography and glossary. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.