The Vanishing Race

The Last Great Indian Council

by Dr. Joseph K. Dixon

the concept of Rodman Wanamaker 

First edition.  Garden City, NY:  Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Decorated cloth covers are mostly clean, with gilt, black, and white title and illustration.
• Boards show some smudges, edgewear.  Corners are bumped, scuffed.  See photos.  
• Spine has gilt text dimmed and decoration in black and white, with crushed ends.
• Binding is fragile, with cracking evident at front hinge.  See photos. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some light toning, a cataloguer's mark.  
• Frontispiece is present and has intact tissue guard.
• Illustrations, 80 photogravures printed in sepia, are bright and clear.  Two plates, facing pg. 30 and pg. 176 are out of alignment, with old tape at gutter.  See photos. 
• Interior is gently age-toned.   Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have gilt along head. 
• PS2026.0709

231 pages. 6.75 x 9.75 inches

First Edition.  Quarto.  Publisher's brick red cloth with gilt title, white & black woven beads device and a Native American portrait.  Illustrated with 80 sepia-tone photogravures.  Boards show a little wear to the extremities, top board shows cracking at half-title page, two plates show old repairs to reattach them.  Interior, gently tanned, is unmarked and crisp, with photogravures very nice.  Condition is overall Very Good Minus, better than its faults suggest.

This volume is the fruit of the inspiration of Rodman Wanamaker (1863-1928), heir of the Philadelphia Wanamaker department store fortune.  Wanamaker, Princeton University Class of 1886, was among other interests a scholar of Native American life.  He sponsored three photographic expeditions between 1908 and 1913 to the American Indians intended to document a vanishing way of life.  The photographs by Joseph Kossuth Dixon (1856-1926) and the first person accounts Dixon gathered make up this book. 

Dixon described his work as follows:  "A record in picture and story of the last great Indian Council, participated in by eminent Indian Chiefs from nearly every Indian reservation in the United States, together with the story of their lives as told by themselves -- their speeches and folklore tales -- their solemn farewell, and the Indians' story of the Custer fight." [title page]

First Edition.  Printed at the Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y.

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