James, George Wharton — Indian Blankets and Their Makers

Glorieta, New Mexico, US, The Rio Grande Press, Inc, 1974. 3rd printing. Hardbound. Brown cloth boards with stamped titles and ornamentation in gilt, copper and metalic green ink; no d.j. as issued; 213 pp. numerous illustrations and color plates. Documents a great deal of Navaho and Pueblo blankets. "Prior to 1892 the modern Navaho blanket was almost unknown. As I shall show in the chapter on the early history of the blanket, there were rare, fine, and wonderful blankets made early in the last century that today are the enby and desire of the collector, but it was not until after 1892 that the blanket began to be made on a large scale as a commercial article." (intro). Good, hinges brittle with some cracking, part of spine foot missing; outer spine cracked along the edge and glued back on; O.w. clean and bright.