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1985Best.-Nr. B61307Harrisburg PA: Pennsylvania Department of Education 1985. Paperback. Very good. RARE! Printed paper panels with stapled binding quarto 8.5" x 11" 88pp. illustrated in b&w. Book has toning to edges of panels stamp to rear panel stapled binding tight text clean and unmarked. Pennsylvania Department of Education paperback
1967Best.-Nr. TB32337New Haven Conn.: Yale University Press 1967. First Edition. First Printing Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a blind embossed compass rose on the front board. A quarto of 11 1/2 by 9 inches. In very good unclipped dust jacket with a 3 1/2 long rent to the rear panel and with a dampness stain to the spine edge of the rear panel which did not migrate to the rear board. 478 pages including an index glossary and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece and facsimile reproductions throughout. Yale University Press hardcover
1967Best.-Nr. 95925New Haven:: Yale Univeristy Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. A study of the first English and French printed sailing directions. With facsimile reproductions. First edition. Foxing on top and fore edges else very good in a very good foxing on verso dust jacket. . Yale Univeristy Press, hardcover
2003Best.-Nr. 036078Middletown IN: L. David Waters 2003. Book. Fine. Spiral Bound. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Spiral-bound clear acetate covers with light shelf wear. 425 pp. printed on rectos only illus. w/ color photographs line drawings diagrams. Uses L&R Manton lock parts 13/16" or 7/8" barrels unique hook breech system allows removal of barrels one at a time without disassembly of action or gun solid trigger guard shot-pin swivel lock adjustable swivel plates traditional dove-tail assembly. Very scarce. L. David Waters Paperback
2013Best.-Nr. 40806John Adamson Dist A/C. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2013. Hardcover. The overall condition of this book is excellent. The binding is tight. The interior of the pages are clean bright and unmarked. The cover is in excellent condition with minor shelving wear. The dust jacket is in good condition with minor shelving wear. Please support an independent bookstore.; 8.99 X 0.84 X 12 inches; 128 pages . 1898565112 . John Adamson Dist A/C hardcover
1955Best.-Nr. 49800New York: Macmillan 1955. First Edition. cloth. Fine/Very Good. Navy blue boards with titles gilt on front and spine. Archival brodart protected original publisher's dustjacket. Dustjacket bumped and lightly chipped on extremities gently rubbed age-toned; book body fine. Macmillan unknown
1987Best.-Nr. 547453Chicago: Path Press 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by St. Clair Drake. 520pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with toning. Path Press hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. H32672Pittsburgh: Nixon Theatre 1939. Wraps. Very good. 8.25 x 5.25 inches very good inscribed on cover by Ethel Waters to Bernard; she was the star in DuBose and Dorothy Heyward's "Mamba's Daughters" at the Nixon Theatre on the week commencing Monday Dec. 4 1939. Nixon Theatre unknown
1972Best.-Nr. 44638New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1972. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. good. 22 cm 162 pages. Illus. boards somewhat worn and soiled parts of DJ had been cut off & pasted inside front board but are now detached. Ink number on title page. Plate-autographed NOT hand-autographed by the author. Introduction by Eugenia Price and Joyce Blackburn. The "ghetto to glitter" autobiography of Ethel Waters the actress and gospel singer who in 1957 came home to Jesus through Billy Graham and his Team. Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover
1931Best.-Nr. 24037New York: Shapiro Bernstein & Co 1931. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good. Quarto. Cover detached but all present. Shapiro Bernstein & Co paperback
1993Best.-Nr. 24186Santa Fe NM: Clear Light Publishers. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 189 pages; Signed "to Sara Frank Waters". ; Signed by Author . Clear Light Publishers hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 57760New York: Horace Liveright 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 233pp. Octavo 19.5 cm Orange and blue cloth covered boards with silver stamped titles on the spine and front cover and a small silver stamped palm tree design on the front cover. The front board fas a general layer of light staining the spine is rolled and there is a small nick in the cloth along the front joint. There is a contemporary owner's inscription on the front free endpaper. A first edition of the author's first book. Horace Liveright hardcover
1986Best.-Nr. 5727Santa Fe: Rydal 1986. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Limited Edition No. 76 of 180 copies SIGNED by Waters and publisher Clark Kimball on colophon; 8vo deep red cloth spine patterned paper covers in red slipcase; vg title piece starting to lift off spine in vg slipcase slipcase sunned and faded with image of bookend on one panel; top and bottom edges worn and dustsoiled; 140pp. Rydal hardcover
1964Best.-Nr. 16455Flagstaff:: Northland Press 1964. First edition. original cloth in dust jacket. Fine in a very slightly soiled price-clipped jacket. Folio. Northland Press, hardcover
1950Best.-Nr. 79270Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Inscribed by Frank Waters on the half-title. Prefaced by a brief history of the Navajo and Pueblo Indians this classic work studies their tribal ceremonialism and its influence upon everyday life. Along with John G. Neihardt Waters 1902-95 was one of the first popular investigators into the spirituality of Native Americans which has become a cornerstone of the New Age Movement. From the James S. Copley Library with the San Diego newspaper publisher and philanthropist's bookplate to the front pastedown. Tall octavo: 438 2 pp. The original cloth binding is notably fresh and bright. The dust jacket however is edgeworn and chipped with a vertical crease to the spine and a bit of mild soiling. The University of New Mexico Press hardcover
1975Best.-Nr. 032053Chicago: Sage Books/The Swallow Press 1975. First Edition. Octavo. . First printing. Review copy with publisher's information laid in. 326 pages index. In 1969 the Rockefeller Foundation granted Waters a research grant on the history of pre-Columbian civilizations--Toltec Aztec Zapotec Maya and Olmec. Here he saw the meaning of the Mayan Great Cycle. The review in Publisher's Weekly wrote: " accumulated evidence.poses the question whether today's intense interest in psychic phenomena is not an expected 'sixth phase' in a cosmic unfolding of man's development." This has a printing error on page 24 where line 21 is duplicated. Bound in 1/4 dark blue cloth over white cloth stamped in blue and blind spine lettering silver. A very good copy in clipped very good dust jacket. Tanner A21. Sage Books/The Swallow Press unknown
1971Best.-Nr. 051016Chicago IL: Sage Books/Swallow Press 1971. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 743pp.; HB orange emboss w/blk.; slight rub w/cleantight pgs. DJ brwn.w/whiteblk.&blue-photocover; slight rub w/tan on flaps. "an epic journey of the American soul" signed&inscribed by Waters. Sage Books/Swallow Press hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. GK2103New York / Toronto: Rinehart & Company 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Part of "The Rivers of America" series edited by Hervey Allen and Carl Carmer. Cloth; illustrated dust jacket. With b/w and color illustrations and maps. Spine tips very lightly rubbed otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket very lightly rubbed a little scuffed along the edges; spine a bit sunned; VG not price-clipped presents nicely in mylar. Rinehart & Company hardcover
1940Best.-Nr. 2515New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation 1940. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. First Edition no additional printings; INSCRIBED by Waters on ffep to photographer Cynthia Farah whose photograph of Waters appears in her book Literature and Landscape; good shelfworn; red stains on rear board and bottom corners of rear fep and pastedown; spine sunned; spine ends bumped and rubbed; cloth on bottom corner of rear board frayed; eps and pages browned; 534pp. Liveright Publishing Corporation hardcover
1960Best.-Nr. 250164New York: Clarkson Potter 1960. Stated First edition. HC w DJ. VG/VG. VG/VG. Cream cloth brown spine titling edgewear to tips soiling to rear board map endpapers unmarked binding sound. Unclipped DJ $5.00 edgewear heaviest to spine tips some rubbing now in Brodart. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012. Clarkson Potter hardcover
1962Best.-Nr. 24493LONDON: NEVILLE SPEARMAN. Near Fine. 1962. First British Edition. Hardcover. First British edition. Near fine in very good or better dust jacket. Previous owner's address sticker at head of front end-paper. Short edge tears & nicks along with shelf-wear to jacket. . NEVILLE SPEARMAN. hardcover
1942Best.-Nr. 619859Denver: University of Denver Press 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Very faint offsetting on endpapers near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning and small tears. A novel of the Pueblo Indian. University of Denver Press hardcover
1965Best.-Nr. CHAPwat490Northland Press 1965-04-01. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no dustjacket as issued. 0x0x0. Signed by Author. Limited Edition 490/1250 signed & numbered by author on limitation page. The binding is clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Text and images unmarked. Housed in a lightly worn slipcase. Northland Press hardcover
1965Best.-Nr. CHAPwat967Northland Press 1965-04-01. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no dustjacket as issued. 0x0x0. Signed by Author. Limited Edition 967/1250 signed & numbered by author on limitation page. The binding is clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Text and images unmarked. Housed in a lightly worn slipcase. Northland Press hardcover
1942Best.-Nr. biblio5730First edition 1st printing Fair to Good book with spine slant wear and fraying at edges corners and ends of spine offsetting and yellowing of end pages and paste-downs PON front end page something had been taped at one time to back end page with old tape residual and offsetting from tape to back paste-down. Now in new facsimile jacket for appearance. Waters' classic story of cultures clashing in the Four Corners area of the Southwest. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
