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Description:
Linderman, Frank Bird (1869-1938),illus. Winold Reiss (1886-1953)Blackfeet Indians. St. Paul, Minnesota: Great Northern Railway, 1935.
First edition, illustrated with forty-nine full-page color portraits of Blackfeet Indians by Reiss, in original decorative publisher's boards and dust jacket, inscribed and signed by Yellow Head with his pictogram on ffep and beneath his portrait on page 22; pictogram signature of Short Man on pages 24 and 45; 12 x 10 in.
Estimate $300-500
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Frank Bird, St. Paul, Minnesota, Yellow HeadJohn Dorfman
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