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2013ref. 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
1955ref. 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
1987ref. 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
1939ref. 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
1972ref. 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
1931ref. 24037New York: Shapiro Bernstein & Co 1931. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good. Quarto. Cover detached but all present. Shapiro Bernstein & Co paperback
1993ref. 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
1930ref. 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
1986ref. 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
1964ref. 16455Flagstaff:: Northland Press 1964. First edition. original cloth in dust jacket. Fine in a very slightly soiled price-clipped jacket. Folio. Northland Press, hardcover
1950ref. 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
1975ref. 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
1971ref. 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
1940ref. 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
1960ref. 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
1962ref. 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
1942ref. 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
1965ref. 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
1965ref. 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
1942ref. 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
1942ref. 16811Denver:: The University of Denver Press 1942. original cloth lacking dust jacket. Very slight edge wear. 8vo. Tanner A8b. Briefly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To John Gilchrist from Frank." The University of Denver Press, hardcover
1935ref. 10605New York: Liveright Publishing 1935. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. First Edition no additional printings; INSCRIBED on half-title to Cynthia Farah whose photograph of Waters appears in her book Literature and Landscape; 12mo black cloth no dj; good cocked; shelfworn; boards rubbed and worn; spine sunned; spine ends and top corners bumped and worn; scrape and waterspots to dyed top edge; side margins of pages from p449 to rear flyleaf chipped due to prev. owner's poor cutting does not affect text; pages toned; 454pp. Liveright Publishing hardcover
1935ref. 2429New York: Liveright Publishing 1935. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. First Edition no additional printings; INSCRIBED by Waters on half-title to New Mexican author Sylvia Motto; 12mo black cloth no dj; good shelfworn; front board rubbed; rear board rubbed and stained with dented bump to side edge; spine sunned; spine ends and corners bumped and worn; yellow tape residue on front pastedown; cracked at pp6-7 and 104-56; dye from top edge ran to top edge of rfep and rear pastedown; inch chip to margin of p453-4 does not affect text; tear to side edge and piece of p454 attached to rfep; pages toning; 454pp. Liveright Publishing hardcover
1947ref. 2507New York: Rinehart and Company Inc. 1947. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. First Edition R in circle on copyright page; INSCRIBED on ffep to photographer Cynthia Farah whose photograph of Waters appears in her book Literature and Landscape; 8vo red cloth good heavily shelfworn; spine ends bumped and worn; spine tail chipped; corners worn to boards; foxing to eps; eps and pages browned in good dj price-clipped; toned; edges heavily chipped torn worn and creased; front panel creased; rear panel dustsoiled; spine sunned; prev. owner used thick brown tape on inside to close tears; 275 pp. Rinehart and Company Inc. hardcover
ref. 029220Denver; 1966: Alan Swallow. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 300pp. Story of the work at Los Alamos contrasted with a woman nearby developing her own psychic powers while showing a cast of remarkable characters ranging from an atomic physicist a bookseller and an anthropologist. Bound in gray cloth spine lettering gilt some toning to board edges. A very good copy in clipped dust jacket lettered in black spine lettering pink. Alan Swallow unknown