Author: KROEBER, Theodora
Title: Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
Description: 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. .

Keywords: Native American Western Americana


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