1937, ISBN: d3c8f493b92333cba2c369c4a59a6a23

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1907. First Edition. Quarto. 573 pp. Illustrated. Original clay buckram elaborately decorated in colors in an all over design on the spine and c… More...

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1907. First Edition. Quarto. 573 pp. Illustrated. Original clay buckram elaborately decorated in colors in an all over design on the spine and covers as an Indian sand painting. Printed paper spine label (creased). Front hinge cracked. Bookplate. An attractive and clean copy.Natalie Curtis (1875-1921) student of Indian and Negro music, was born in New York City, had thought to pursue a career as a concert pianist. This changed after a trip to Arizona where her interest in the fast disappearing Indian culture had been aroused. The result, after seven years of work, was The Indians' Book which "won instant recognition not only for the amazing accuracy of the musical transcriptions, but, for the revelation of the Indian's artistic genius and for the light which it shed on the inner thought and aspirations of primitive man...[it] has become a treasury to musicians, artist, poet, and ethnologist alike, and the historian of the future will owe a debt of gratitude to the young woman [Natalie Curtis] who made her rare musical gifts and wide knowledge, her spiritual understanding, intellectual penetration, and flashing artistic intuition through which the Indian's contribution of art and creative thought should be recorded for all time." (from the 1937 edition), Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1907<

1937, ISBN: d3c8f493b92333cba2c369c4a59a6a23

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1907. First Edition. Quarto. 573 pp. Illustrated. Original clay buckram elaborately decorated in colors in an all over design on the spine and c… More...

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1907. First Edition. Quarto. 573 pp. Illustrated. Original clay buckram elaborately decorated in colors in an all over design on the spine and covers as an Indian sand painting. Printed paper spine label (creased). Front hinge cracked. Bookplate. An attractive and clean copy.Natalie Curtis (1875-1921) student of Indian and Negro music, was born in New York City, had thought to pursue a career as a concert pianist. This changed after a trip to Arizona where her interest in the fast disappearing Indian culture had been aroused. The result, after seven years of work, was The Indians' Book which "won instant recognition not only for the amazing accuracy of the musical transcriptions, but, for the revelation of the Indian's artistic genius and for the light which it shed on the inner thought and aspirations of primitive man...[it] has become a treasury to musicians, artist, poet, and ethnologist alike, and the historian of the future will owe a debt of gratitude to the young woman [Natalie Curtis] who made her rare musical gifts and wide knowledge, her spiritual understanding, intellectual penetration, and flashing artistic intuition through which the Indian's contribution of art and creative thought should be recorded for all time." (from the 1937 edition), Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1907<

1907, ISBN: d3c8f493b92333cba2c369c4a59a6a23

[PU: Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York], First Edition. Quarto. 573 pp. Illustrated. Original clay buckram elaborately decorated in colors in an all over design on the spine and co… More...

[PU: Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York], First Edition. Quarto. 573 pp. Illustrated. Original clay buckram elaborately decorated in colors in an all over design on the spine and covers as an Indian sand painting. Printed paper spine label (creased). Front hinge cracked. Bookplate. An attractive and clean copy.Natalie Curtis (1875-1921) student of Indian and Negro music, was born in New York City, had thought to pursue a career as a concert pianist. This changed after a trip to Arizona where her interest in the fast disappearing Indian culture had been aroused. The result, after seven years of work, was The Indians' Book which "won instant recognition not only for the amazing accuracy of the musical transcriptions, but, for the revelation of the Indian's artistic genius and for the light which it shed on the inner thought and aspirations of primitive man.[it] has become a treasury to musicians, artist, poet, and ethnologist alike, and the historian of the future will owe a debt of gratitude to the young woman [Natalie Curtis] who made her rare musical gifts and wide knowledge, her spiritual understanding, intellectual penetration, and flashing artistic intuition through which the Indian's contribution of art and creative thought should be recorded for all time." (from the 1937 edition)<

1935, ISBN: d3c8f493b92333cba2c369c4a59a6a23

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Harper and Brothers Publishers], THE INDIAN'S BOOK: AN OFFERING BY AMERICAN INDIANS OF INDIAN LORE, MUSICAL AND NARRATIVE, TO FORM A RECORD SONGS LEGENDS TH… More...

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Harper and Brothers Publishers], THE INDIAN'S BOOK: AN OFFERING BY AMERICAN INDIANS OF INDIAN LORE, MUSICAL AND NARRATIVE, TO FORM A RECORD SONGS LEGENDS THEIR RACE, NATALIE CURTIS, HARPER BROTHERS PUBLISHERS, HARDBACK, NOISBN, MUSIC,, HISTORY, FOLKLORE, THIRD PRINTING, G hardback. 1936 Harper and Brothers Publishers (third printing). Age-yellowing to pages & boards. Boards have a few tanning spots down hinges, a touch of rubbing to extremities. Size: 4to - over 9¾"<