Fine Books and Manuscripts

The Vanishing Race: The Last Great Indian Council. Garden City and New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. 8vo. Sepia photogravue frontispiece, numerous sepia photogravure plates after photographs by Rodman Wannemaker. Publisher's brown pictorial cloth (upper hinge broken, spine ends with light wear.) FIRST EDITION, published to commemorate the groundbreaking of the National American Indian Memorial, intended to overlook the Narrows at the entrance of New York Harbor, which was never completed.