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[Three Documents Concerning the Sale of Native American Lands in Oklahoma by the Federal Government]

[Three Documents Concerning the Sale of Native American Lands in Oklahoma by the Federal Government] by [Oklahoma]: [Native Americans]: [Curtis Act of 1898]: Adams Brothers, et al.

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Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC
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[Three Documents Concerning the Sale of Native American Lands in Oklahoma by the Federal Government]
Author
[Oklahoma]: [Native Americans]: [Curtis Act of 1898]: Adams Brothers, et al.
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The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description
Oklahoma, 1911. Three documents (two printed broadsides and one typed letter): 12 x 6; 11 x 8.5; and 12 x 8.5 inches. Folded, with slight scuffing to some edges; one with notes in pencil. Otherwise excellent. Three documents concerning the United States government's auction of appropriated Indigenous land in Oklahoma following the 1898 Curtis Act. The Curtis Act was an amendment to the 1887 Dawes Act that extended its authority to the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). These acts were essentially land grabs that also allowed the state to break up tribal governmental and social structures. Among other provisions, they allotted households or individuals in the tribe plots of land, and the surplus land was sold at auction by the government. The present group includes two broadsides and a letter concerning the auction of Choctaw and Chickasaw land in 1911. The earlier broadside is dated August 1, 1911, and was issued from Muskogee by J.G. Wright, the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes. Here, Wright provides the date and location of auctions in each county for "unallotted lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations" to be sold at "public auction," and information about the terms of the auction. A previous owner of the broadside, perhaps a participant in the auction, has added numerous notes in pencil regarding population in various counties and other information. The slightly later broadside was issued by the Adams Brothers in Ardmore. They provide terms for the auction sale, noting land is being sold at a minimum of $8 per acre and that such lands are "considered as agricultural land for the purpose of this sale." Drilling for oil or minerals will not be allowed on any tract until "the full purchase price has been paid." In addition, the Adams Brothers remind potential buyers that both small and large tracts of land are available, to satisfy a range of needs (grazing, timber, farming, and more). The broadside also advertises services to prospective buyers, both in showing locations and in bidding on behalf of clients. It promises that if clients purchase land and improve on it they "will soon wake up to the realization that you are worth some money you can hardly account for." The letter comes from A. Hilton, passenger agent with the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company. It advises A. M. Sawyer of Fort Recovery, Ohio, about the railroad's "Homeseekers tickets," which seem to have been tickets out to areas where these sorts of land auctions were happening. An interesting trio of documents encapsulating 20th-century efforts towards cultural assimilation of Indigenous Americans in Oklahoma, and spreading the wealth of the mineral richness of lands in Indian Territory, by dispersing their lands to the highest bidder.
George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile

George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile by Bush, George H.W. [David Valdez]

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
Title
George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile
Author
Bush, George H.W. [David Valdez]
Seller
The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
ISBN
9780890967799
Condition
Fine
Description
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. First Edition / Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine. Signed limited edition of A Photographic Profile by White House photographer, David Valdez. Signed by President George H.W. Bush.. Quarto, xv, 147pp. Blue cloth, gilt title stamped on spine. Matching blue cloth slipcase, in fine condition, with embossed presidential seal and gilt signature on cover. Book itself is fine, likely never read. From a limited edition of 1250 copies signed by President George H.W. Bush and White House photographer David Valdez. An attractive historical record of the first Bush administration and the life of President George H.W. Bush. Includes over 200 color photographs.
Salt Pans. Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India

Salt Pans. Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India by BURTYNSKY, Edward

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Salt Pans. Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India
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BURTYNSKY, Edward
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN
9783958292406
Condition
A fine copy
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Göttingen: Steidl, 2016. A fine copy. Oblong folio (36 x 29 cm) 31 color photographs. Cloth; slipcase. Additional photograph in cloth chemise. DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, number 25 of 50 copies signed by Burtynsky with an original photograph, from an edition of 150 (three sets of 50 copies, each with one of three images) plus 15 artists proofs. The additional image is that found of p. 4 of the book. "The images in this book are not about the battles being fought on the ground. Rather, they examine this ancient method of providing one of the most basic elements of our diet; as primitive industry and as abstract two-dimensional human marks upon the landscape." – Edward Burtynsky. For this series, the photographer traveled to Gujarat, India, to make images of the Little Ranch of Kutch, a region that is home to more than 100,000 salt workers extracting around one million tons of salt from the floodwaters of the Arabian Sea each year. "Salt has been their main industry for the last four hundred years. Receding groundwater levels and declining market values will in time make this way of life obsolete and will cause the salt pans to disappear." Taken from an aerial vantage point, some 500-800 feet about the ground, Burtynsky's images show a landscape of multi-colored interlocking rectangles, spanning across the delta: "Burtynsky’s photographs have become increasingly abstract as a result of his topographical perspective and fascination with finding similarities in the industrialized landscape to painting. Salt Pans continues in this direction with Burtynsky exploring the subtle modulations of tone and compositional balance of the pans, and the calligraphic tracks from vehicles referencing scale and human activity.
Madman's Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts

Madman's Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts by Ward, Lynd

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Madman's Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts
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Ward, Lynd
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
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New York: Jonathan Cape; Harrison Smith, 1930. First trade edition. Hardcover. Very good/good +. Octavo [22 cm] 1/4 black cloth over black and white pictorial paper over boards with a paper title label on the spine. With the publisher's black top stain. Black endpapers. The spine is rolled and the boards are moderately rubbed at the edges. There is a brief contemporary gift inscription on the front flyleaf. In the dust jacket, with occasional closed and open tears in the edges. The deepest tear is closed, backed with tape, and measures 2" long. The spine of the jacket is darkened and a bit moisture stained. Dance 005. Lynd Ward (1905 - 1985) was an American artist most famous for his wood engravings — in particular, his novels without words, in which he tells a story only with woodcuts. His style mixes Art Deco with German Expressionism. This is the second of Ward's six wordless novels.
The cosmology of finding your spot

The cosmology of finding your spot by Dorn, Ed

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The cosmology of finding your spot
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Dorn, Ed
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[Lawrence, Kansas?]: Cottonwood, 1969. First edition, broadside (approx. 432 x 279 mm.); long poem printed in wavy formation; previous fold, a few soil spots, else very good. "Presented April 10, 1969 at the United Campus Christian Fellowship benefit reading for the draft registers league.
Skulpturer

Skulpturer by TAJIRI, Shinkichi

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Skulpturer
Author
TAJIRI, Shinkichi
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Harper's Books (United States)
Condition
First and last page lightly worn, else near fine in screwbound wrappers.
Description
Malmö: Lunds Konsthall, 1971. First and last page lightly worn, else near fine in screwbound wrappers.. First Edition. Duodecimo, bound with single plastic screw-post. Innovative artists' book made in conjunction with exhibition at Lunds Konsthall, Malmö, during October, 1971. Functions as flip book, animating photographs of Tajiri blowing up a balloon alongside Swedish text. Reverse direction, contains hundreds of black and white photographs of Tajiri and his artworks alongside English captions. Tajiri was a Japanese-American artist who resided primarily in the Netherlands and was associated with Karel Appel and COBRA; this book also suggests a shared affinity with Fluxus.