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1972réf. 221831972. African AmericanFilm and Entertainment Waters Ethel. To Me It's Wonderful. New York: Harper & Row 1972. First edition. Original wrappers. Inscribed on the title page by the author: "In His Precious Love / Ethel Waters." A compelling first-person memoir by trailblazing African American actress and singer Ethel Waters. Waters rose to fame on the Harlem Renaissance stage and in Hollywood before undergoing a profound religious conversion later in life. This work her second autobiography following His Eye is on the Sparrow 1951 departs from a conventional career retrospective in favor of a testimonial narrative documenting her embrace of evangelical Christianity and her close association with Rev. Billy Graham to whom the book is dedicated "To my precious child Billy Graham and my entire Team family". Waters an emblematic figure of 20th-century Black performance history broke barriers as the first African American woman nominated for a Primetime Emmy and among the earliest to star in her own television program. Her legacy includes her profound impact on jazz blues and gospel music as well as her courageous navigation of a white-dominated entertainment and religious sphere. Wrapper with modest edgewear and vertical creasing along spine minor surface rubbing to rear. Overall very good condition. An uncommon signed copy of Waters' second autobiography. unknown books
1988réf. 209048New York: Random House 1988. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 449 pages. A collection of recipes from these important chefs illustrated with photographs by Gail Skoff. A clean very near fine copy in cloth boards and in a very good plus dust jacket with some sunning to the spine and edges. Random House unknown books
1998réf. 202616New York: Blind Spot 1998. First edition. Softcover. Features a text contribution by A.M. Homes. Includes images by Joseph Bartscherer Jeff Brouws James Casebere Mark Lyon Richard Misrach Tokihiro Sato and John Waters. A fine copy in wrappers. Blind Spot unknown books
2001réf. 202618New York: Blind Spot 2001. First edition. Softcover. Features a text contribution by Dave Eggers. Includes images by Nan Goldin Teun Hocks Roni Horn Tony Oursler Stephen Tourlentes John Waters Peter Fischli. A fine copy in wrappers. Blind Spot unknown books
1933réf. 14325New York: The John Day Company 1933. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. Signed by the authors W.W. Waters and William C. White the first edition of Bonus Expeditionary Force: The Whole Story of the Bonus Army. Octavo 16pp photos 288pp. Beige cloth title in blue on spine. Blue topstain. No additional printings listed. Solid text block faint foxing to edges transference to endpapers. In the publisher's scarce dust jacket $2.50 retail price on front flap short closed tears to top edge thin red stain to rear panel dampstain to verso. Signed by W.W. Waters and William C. White on the front flyleaf a scarce signed example. Walter W. Waters former WWI sergeant led a legion of 43000 remonstrators to Washington D.C. to demand early repayment of their service certificates in 1932. This group named the Bonus Expeditionary Force were cleared from their campsites by Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur with orders from President Herbert Hoover. The veterans did not receive their early payment until 1936 when Congress overrode a veto from President Roosevelt. The John Day Company unknown books
2000réf. 189320Athens OH: Swallow Press - Ohio University Press 2000. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 328 pages. A wide ranging sample of Waters writing taken from his forty year career. A very fine unread copy in cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket. Swallow Press - Ohio University Press unknown books
1973réf. 309765New York: Putnam 1973. First. hardcover. very good/very good. Burne-Jones. Profusely illustrated in color & b/w. 209 pages. Tall 4to brown cloth dust wrapper. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1973. First edition. Light foxing and toning to page edges; front cover scuffed still a very good solid copy. Putnam unknown books
1979réf. 179334Brockport NY: BOA Editions 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 63 pages. Copy S of 26 copies specially bound copies. A collection of poems. A fine copy in marbled paper covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Waters on the limitation page. A lovely copy. BOA Editions unknown books
2002réf. 154088Ibaraki: Contemporary Art Center 2002. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery Art Tower Mito from April 13 through June 9 2002. Text in Japanese and English. Fine and unread in card wrappers with a Fine dust jacket. Contemporary Art Center unknown books
1868réf. 732591868. Murder Will Out" "Waters" Russell William 1806-1876. Recollections of a Sheriff's Officer. London: Aldine Chambers c.1868. iv 140 pp. Octavo 6-3/4" x 4-1/4". Contemporary cloth blind fillets and gilt title to spine speckled edges. Some soiling faint dampstaining and fading to boards and spine corners just bumped hinges cracked light offsetting to endleaves contemporary armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places crack in text block between pp. 94 and 95 small tear to lower edge of second leaf not affecting text. Rare. $450. Second edition. This fine example of the genre of Victorian detective fiction first appeared in 1840 under a different imprint. Short anecdotes narrated by down-on-his-luck sheriff's officer William Sharpe cover murder abduction and theft. Contents include "Murder Will Out" "Diamond Cut Diamond" "Very Mysterious" "The Dead Alive" "A Writ of Capias" and "Nobs and Snobs." Russell was an early and prolific writer of crime stories and detective fiction sometimes under his own name and sometimes as here under the pseudonym "Waters" or "Thomas Waters." OCLC locates 2 copies of all editions and 1 copy of the present edition UT-Austin. Hubin Crime Fiction 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography 416. unknown books
1951réf. 465440New York: Doubleday 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. Moderate edgewear corners a bit bumped foredge toned very good in attractive very good dustwrapper with a stain on the rear flap. Doubleday hardcover books
2013réf. 170624Washington DC: Scarith 2013. Softcover. 108 pages. A collection of poems by Waters. A fine copy in wrappers. Signed and inscribed by Waters to fellow poet Marie Ponsot on the half title page. Uncommon signed. Scarith unknown books
1983réf. 157842Birmingham AL: Thunder City Press 1983. First edition. Softcover. Number 59 from 100 hand sewn copies from a total edition of 300. A slim collection of 6 poems. A near fine copy in string tied wrappers with some slight tanning to the spine. Signed by Waters on the limitation page and additionally signed and inscribed by Waters on the title page to poet Ralph Mills Jr. in the year of publication. A nice association copy. Thunder City Press unknown books
1968réf. 155455San Francisco CA: Mount Vernon Press 1968. First edition. Softcover. 45 pages. A collection of poems printed in an edition of 500 copies. A very good copy in stapled wrappers with some foxing in a good only dust jacket with some foxing and some edge tears as well. Signed by Waters. Mount Vernon Press unknown books
1979réf. 141552Brockport NY: BOA Editions 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Copy IV of X copies specially bound copies of this collection of poems. A fine copy in marbled paper covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Waters on the limitation page and with a full page holograph poem- "Drunk With Pavese" written out by Waters. A lovely copy. BOA Editions unknown books
1979réf. 138010Brockport NY: Boa Editions 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 63 pages. A collection of poems by Waters. A clean near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some fading to the spine and edges and with laid in publisher sheet with the poem"Not Just Any Death. Boa Editions unknown books
1985réf. 138050Pittsburgh PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press 1985. First edition. Softcover. 46 pages. First printing of the simultaneous paperback issue. A slim collection of poetry. A very near fine copy in wrappers. Carnegie Mellon University Press unknown books
1977réf. 138049Derry PA: The Rook Press 1977. First edition. Softcover. Number 76 of 300 copies. A slim collection of poems. A near fine copy in string tied wrappers. Signed by Waters. The Rook Press unknown books
1979réf. 138035Brockport NY: Boa Editions 1979. First edition. Softcover. 63 pages. A collection of poems by Waters. A clean near fine copy in wrappers with some fading to the spine and edges. A tight unread copy. Boa Editions unknown books
1985réf. 115360Pittsburgh PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press 1985. First edition. Softcover. 46 pages. First printing of the simultaneous paperback issue. A slim collection of poetry. A near fine copy in wrappers. Signed and inscribed by Waters to author Lucien Stryk on the half title. A nice association copy. Carnegie Mellon University Press unknown books
1927réf. 319503Cliffdale Alpine N.J.: Privately printed 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. First separate edition. Quarter cloth and marbled papercovered boards with printed paper labels. A bit of rubbing very good or better. Privately printed for the friends of George A. Zabriskie. Privately printed hardcover books
1952réf. 170434Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1952. Collection of 36 vintage reference photographs from the 1952 film including 35 bordered and one borderless. Most with provenance stamps and labels on the versos and four with printed mimeo snipes affixed to same. Based on Carson McCullers' beloved 1946 novel which McCullers also adapted for Broadway in 1950 starring actors Ethel Waters and Julie Harris who reprised their roles for the film. A young lonely tomboy dreams of escaping her small southern town with her brother and his fiancée. Harris was 27 more than double the age of the fictional Frankie Addams at the time of the film's production. Set in the American South. 35 photographs 10 x 8 inches one 7.5 x 9.25 inches. Generally Very Good plus to Near Fine a couple with annotations in manuscript ink on the margins. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1978réf. 170426Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1978. Collection of 17 vintage studio still photographs from the 1978 film including nine bordered and black-and-white and eight borderless and in color. Black-and-white photographs with provenance stamps or labels on the versos. Frequently hailed as one of the greatest documentary concert films ever made capturing a performance by The Band on November 25 1976 accompanied by Ronnie Hawkins Bob Dylan Eric Clapton Bobby Charles Emmylou Harris Dr. John Joni Mitchell Muddy Waters Neil Young and others. Shot at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine to Fine. National Film Registry. United Artists unknown books
1974réf. 172057N.p.: Saliva Films / Dreamland Productions 1974. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1974 film showing the film's poster. John Waters' fourth feature after his wildly successful 1972 film "Pink Flamingos" about a rebellious high-school student who embarks on a murder spree after her parents deny her request for cha-cha heels at Christmastime. Dedicated to Manson Family member Charles "Tex" Watson who inspired the theme of the film: "crime is beauty." Shot on location in Baltimore Maryland. 10 x 8 inches with wide top and bottom margins. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 929. Saliva Films / Dreamland Productions unknown books
1990réf. 170773N.p.: N.p. 1990. Five vintage color transparencies from the 1990 film showing cast members during filming on location. A characteristically oddball romantic comedy set in Baltimore in the 1950s about the romance between rockabilly outcast Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker and an upper-class girl named Allison. Shot on location throughout Maryland in Ellicott City Hampden Baltimore Reisterstown Jessup Milford Mill and Sykesville and in Santa Clarita California and Hershey Pennsylvania. 5 x 4 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
