First edition of “The Last of the Seris” by Dane Coolidge and Mary Roberts Coolidge, published by E. P. Dutton and Co. Inc., New York, 1939. Copyright page states First Edition. Original price $2.50. With photographs throughout by Dane Coolidge taken during his personal expeditions to Kino Bay and Tiburon Island, Sonora, Mexico.

The book is a firsthand ethnographic and narrative account of the few surviving Seri Indians, including Santo Blanco the medicine man and artist, old war chiefs, and their culture, language, drawings, and songs.

Mrs. Coolidge was the first trained sociologist to live with and document the Seri women and children.

Dane Coolidge was a Stanford and Harvard-educated naturalist, field collector, and prolific Western author recognized by the NY Tribune as the best writer in the Western field.

The dust jacket copy includes the ex-libris bookplate of Alonzo De Jessop. Red cloth boards with black Seri ceremonial symbol on front, tight binding.

Dust jacket present but heavily worn with faded spine and edge losses. Ships carefully packaged with media mail.