Edward S. Curtis 1868-1952

(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Edward S. Curtis, 1909, a proposed edition of 500), a volume illustrated with 76 photogravures on Holland Van Gelder paper after photographs by Curtis of the Mandan, Arikara, and Atsina, 3 hand-colored, each with a printed caption and the photographer's copyright in the margin, 1909.  Thick 4to, gilt-lettered, brown ¾ morocco, numbered '142' in an unidentified hand in ink on the colophon, no. 142 in the proposed edition of 500