# Is "The Delight Makers" by Adolph F. Bandelier a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of The Delight Makers by Adolph F. Bandelier (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1890) is identified by: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1890, collating xvii, 490 pages, bound in publisher's cloth.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1890, collating xvii, 490 pages, bound in publisher's cloth
- This is Bandelier's only novel -- a fictionalized ethnographic reconstruction of prehistoric Pueblo life at Rito de los Frijoles (in what is now Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico) that grew directly out of his archaeological fieldwork for the Archaeological Institute of America
- The true 1890 first edition carries only Bandelier's own preface and does not include an introduction by Charles F. Lummis
- Publisher imprint reads Dodd, Mead and Company
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Adolph F. Bandelier |
| Publisher | Dodd, Mead and Company |
| Year | 1890 |
| True first | — |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1890, collating xvii, 490 pages, bound in publisher's cloth |
| Book-club edition exists? | — |

## Points of issue
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1890, collating xvii, 490 pages, bound in publisher's cloth. This is Bandelier's only novel -- a fictionalized ethnographic reconstruction of prehistoric Pueblo life at Rito de los Frijoles (in what is now Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico) that grew directly out of his archaeological fieldwork for the Archaeological Institute of America. The true 1890 first edition carries only Bandelier's own preface and does not include an introduction by Charles F. Lummis.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
Editions catalogued or advertised as including "an introduction by Charles F. Lummis" are later printings -- library and archive catalog records consistently list the Lummis-introduction text as a separate edition from the plain 1890 Dodd, Mead first (a scan of the Lummis-introduction text is dated 1916); 20th-century reprints from Rio Grande Press, Sunstone Press, and the University of New Mexico Press are likewise later than the true first.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *The Delight Makers* by Adolph F. Bandelier a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-delight-makers
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.