The Delight Makers
- New York: Dodd, Mead, 1918
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1918. First Thus. Second edition and first illustrated edition (originally published 1890). Octavo. Publisher's pictorial cloth; yellow topstain; xviii,490pp; portrait frontispiece and fifteen unnumbered leaves of plates (halftones) from original photographs by Charles Lummis. Square, tight copy with mild external rubbing and wear; internally fresh and free of markings; Very Good.
A novel of the New Mexico Pueblo, intended to "place before the public, in novelistic garb, an account of the life and activities of the Pueblo Indians before the coming of white men." The work is based on Bandelier's extensive experience as an archaeologist in New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico. This edition includes a new introduction and fifteen photographic illustrations by Bandelier's friend and colleague, the prominent Native American rights advocate Charles Lummis.
A novel of the New Mexico Pueblo, intended to "place before the public, in novelistic garb, an account of the life and activities of the Pueblo Indians before the coming of white men." The work is based on Bandelier's extensive experience as an archaeologist in New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico. This edition includes a new introduction and fifteen photographic illustrations by Bandelier's friend and colleague, the prominent Native American rights advocate Charles Lummis.