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157. (Native American). LIPPS, Oscar H. Our National Indian Problem and the ChiefFactors in Its Solution. (Chilocco, OK): Chilocco Indian Vocational School, [c. 1933]. Lipps,Superintendent of the Sacramento Indian Agency, argues that the Indian should be, and must bewilling to be, part of the American melting pot with the “Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, Hawaiiansand other brown races enrolled in our private colleges and universities, frequently enduringprivation and social ostracism.” Illustrated; near fine in stapled wrappers. A fresh, attractivecopy. Printed by Indian students at the Oklahoma vocational school. $250158. (Native American). PIERRE, Chief George. Autumn’s Bounty. Des Moines:Amerindic Lore Press, 1959. The true first edition of this novel by Pierre, a chief of theColville Confederated Tribes of Washington state, dealing with the controversial question of“termination”—the ending of federal control over Indian reservations and the resultant freedoms,and losses, the policy would entail. Later published in a trade edition by Naylor in 1972, this is anapparently self-published hardbound typescript, printed on rectos only, stamped “first edition”on the title page and cover. Inscribed by the author: “To George Nack, my favorite kind ofpeople, with fond thoughts always * George Pierre.” Tapebound, gilt stamped velour boards.Fine. Laid into a near fine publisher’s folding box with illustrated pastedowns depicting a mapof the U.S. - Canadian border area in which the novel takes place. Rare. Comparison with thelater edition (a copy of which is included) shows this version to represent an early draft of the 1972novel. Chief George Pierre died in 2011 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. This isthe only copy of this early version of his book we have seen, predating the Naylor edition—itselfsomewhat uncommon—by 13 years. $1500159. (NORMAN, Howard). Kuksu, Nos. 5 & 6. (Nevada City): (Kuksu Press)(1976-1977). Two issues of this “Journal of Backcountry Writing,” each with a Swampy Cree translationby Norman: “Who Caught Stubborness [sic] from Jays” was later collected in Northern Tales;“Fragments of a Tale, a Nomenclature of ‘Wandering’” may remain uncollected. Each issue issigned by Norman at his contribution. Foredge and top edge staining; else each is near fine inwrappers. For both: $75160. OATES, Joyce Carol. Last Days. NY: Dutton (1984). A collection of stories.Warmly inscribed by Oates to author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife, in the year of publication.Fine in a near fine dust jacket with just a bit of fading near the crown. $125161. OFFUTT, Chris. Working Copy of Kentucky Straight. (Castle Rock): BellaLuna (1992). Copyedited typeset sheets for an apparently never-produced limited edition ofOffutt’s first book, a collection of stories published in 1992 as a paperback original in the VintageContemporaries series. One full set (140 pages) and five partial sets (approximately 270 pages).With copyeditor’s marks throughout. 8 1/2" x 11" sheets, printed on rectos only. A few markswhere rubber bands once lay; near fine, in manuscript box. Offutt’s book received high praisefrom critics; on the strength of it and his 1993 memoir, The Same River Twice, he was named oneof the “20 best young American writers” by Granta magazine. Presumably unique. $750162. OFFUTT, Chris. Out of the Woods. (NY): Simon & Schuster (1999). Inscribed by Offuttto another writer and his wife in 1999: “I walked [Out of the Woods] to write these [Stories]. Hey, herewe are in Kentucky, next in France!” Fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice literary association. $100163. (ONDAATJE, Michael). Poets Between the Wars. (Toronto): McClelland andStewart (1967). Ondaatje’s copy of this paperback anthology. Signed: “Michael and KimOndaatje/ London, August ‘67.” Laid in is a manuscript fragment in Ondaatje’s hand (likely usedas a bookmark), which reads: “cf. [compare] [Robert] Frost and [Archibald] Lampman as NaturePoets — show (in [words torn here] etc, Woodcutter’s Hut [a Lampman poem].” The anthology isspine-sunned; near fine in wrappers. The fragment is edge-sunned and unevenly torn, about foursquare inches. An early (legible) Ondaatje signature, from the same year The Dainty Monsters, hisfirst book, was published. $200164. OWENS, Iris. Manuscripts and Typescripts. c. 1985-1986. Multiple typescriptand holograph drafts of three articles for the magazine Art & Antiques. Fourteen pages on thesubject of combs (and “the magical powers of women’s hair”), with a vast number of holographcorrections; approximately 68 pages on the subject of rocking chairs (and the American romancewith), again with vast reworkings and countless false starts; and 23 pages on the painter FrancoisBoucher and his relationship with Madame de Pompadour, and again including several heavilycorrected drafts. Together with two checks endorsed by Owens, from the editor at Art & Antiques.Also together with a typed letter signed by Owens to the editor, pleading her case against anypublished repudiation of points in her article on Boucher by a Boucher authority. The letteris folded in thirds and has holes in several of the “o’s” from the impact of the typewriter key;otherwise fine. The drafts are very near fine or better: several pages are written on legal sizepaper and have been folded over to fit into a letter-sized folder. Iris Owens was the author of thenovel After Claude, which has come to be seen as an underground classic. In the 1950s she wentto Paris where she was friends with Alexander Trocchi, avant garde writer, junkie, and editorof the magazine Merlin. A provocative proto-feminist who routinely defied boundaries andconventions, she supported herself writing pornography for Maurice Girodias’s Olympia Pressunder the pen-name Harriet Daimler, the work often centered around rape fantasies. Reportedlyshe was the only writer Girodias ever asked to “tone it down.” Owens died in 2008 and AfterClaude was reissued in 2010 by New York Review Books, with an introduction by Emily Prager.For all: $750modern literature 158 | 4243 | lopezbooks.com