First US edition. Hardback, bound in quarter cloth with paper covered boards. 21.5 × 14.5cm, 264pp. The American first edition preceded the English by a year. This copy belonged to Leslie Van Ness Denman, who has signed the ffep. She was wife of Chief Judge William Denman of the United States Court of Appeals, an author on American Indian culture as well as a collector of American Indian art. She served on the Indian lore committee for the San Francisco International Exposition until the 1930s, and both she and her husband were strong supporters for the rights of Navajo and Hopi Indians. Norman Douglas's collected essays, including his study of Charles Doughty's Arabia Deserta, D H Lawrence and Maurice Magnus, Edgar Allan Poe, and A Mad Englishman (Charles Waterton). Condition: The covers are a little rubbed and bumped but this remains in strong readable condition.