Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
by KROEBER, Theodora
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. Hardcover. Foreword by Lewis Gannett. Small 4to. Tan cloth with brown spine lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 255pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, maps, decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Tight, handsome first edition of (to cite front jacket flap) "The life story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe... unique in the annals of North American anthropology." Front jacket panel notes, "The life and death of a California Indian tribe and the story of... its last survivor, who emerged from the stone age into the modern world in 1911." Superb copy of a somewhat uncommon title.
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- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43275
- Title
- Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
- Author
- KROEBER, Theodora
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1962
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Western Americana; Native American;
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