The Dust Within the Rock
by Waters, Frank
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 534pp. Thick octavo [19.5 cm] Thickly woven blue cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles. Very good. The spine is barely perceptibly rolled. Bookseller's tiny label on the rear pastedown. The dust jacket is in fair condition. There is a large loss from the bottom edge. Frank Waters wrote 27 books, including novels, biographies, histories, and essay collections. The majority of his fiction and non-fiction mirrors Waters’ wide interest in... Read More
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Pike's Peak
by Waters, Frank
Chicago: Sage Books / The Swallow Press Inc, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 743pp. Large octavo [23.5 cm] Bright orange cloth covered boards with a black ink stamped title on the spine. Very good condition. The edges of the covers are lightly rubbed. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with rubbing. The spine is faded. There are a couple of short closed tears in the top edge of the front panel. Price-clipped. Signed by Waters on the... Read More
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Leon Gaspard
by Waters, Frank
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. SIGNED. 114pp. Quarto [31 cm] Black cloth over boards with gold lettering on the spine and front cover. There are several minor stains on the fore edge of the text block. The dust jacket is price-clipped, subtly yellowed, and has 3/4" closed tear in the bottom edge. Inscribed by Frank Waters on the title page. With a catalog published by Northland Press, titled Leon Gaspard, tucked... Read More
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The Lizard Woman
by Waters, Frank
Austin, TX: Thorp Springs Press, 1984. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 136pp. Octavo [22 cm] Bright red cloth over boards with gilt stamping. The rear cover is just a bit warped, and there is a prior owner's name on the front free endpaper. In a dust jacket, with light rubbing, and just a small amount of chipping to the top edge of the front panel. Inscribed by Frank Waters on the front free endpaper.
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Midas of the Rockies: The Story of Stratton and Cripple Creek
by Waters, Frank
Chicago: Sage Books / The Swallow Press Inc, 1972. Third edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 347pp. Octavo [22 cm] Bright yellow cloth covered boards with the title stamped in black ink on the backstrip. The publisher's device is blind stamped on the front board. Near fine. The spine ends are bumped, and there is very minor soiling on the bottom edges of the covers. Tanned pages. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with mild rubbing and age-toning. The edges... Read More
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The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
by Waters, Michael
New York: Picador, 2024. First edition. Paperback. New. 354pp. Duodecimo [21cm]. Pictoral wraps. "The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. In December 1935, Zden k Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he, too, was a... Read More
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Carleton E. Watkins: Photographer of the American West
by Watkins, Carleton E.; Peter E. Palmquist and Martha A. Sandweiss
Albuquerque, NM: Published for the Amon Carter Museum by the University of New Mexico Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. SIGNED. 234pp. Oblong quarto [24 cm x 31 cm] Rust colored cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Minor rubbing at the spine ends. In the dust jacket, with surface rubbing. Carleton E. Watkins documented the American west between 1854 and 1891, and his 1861 photographs of Yosemite made such an... Read More
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Maroc
by Watson, Albert
New York: Rizzoli, 1998. Hardcover. Folio [36.5 cm] Illustrated paper covered boards. Very good. The edges of the spine and covers are bumped. The spine is slightly rolled. The dust jacket is in very good condition. Mildly soiled. There is a small stain on the rear panel.Extra charges apply on this item due to weight. May require extra postage due to weight. Albert Watson is an internationally famous fashion photographer whose earlier book, Cyclops, was an instant success. His... Read More
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Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1801-1844
by Watson, Elden Jay
Salt Lake City, UT: Printed by Smith Secretarial Service, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 274pp. Octavo [25.5 cm] Black grained cloth with title printed on the backstrip. Very good. The title on the spine has faded. The rear pastedown has a bookbinder's label. There are two blind stamps from a previous owner on the front free endsheet and title page. The pages are very clean. One of 500 copies. Brigham Young began keeping a daily journal early in the year... Read More
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Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1846-1847
by Watson, Elden J.
Salt Lake City, UT: Elden J. Watson, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 672pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue cloth with gilt titles on the front board and backstrip. Index. Very good. The covers are slightly cocked. The edges of the spine and covers are gently bumped and rubbed. The gilt stamped title on the front cover has faded. There is very minor soiling on the edges of the text block. There are two blind stamps from a previous owner on the... Read More
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The Double Helix
by Watson, James D.; Lawrence Bragg (Foreword)
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2000. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. Very Good +. 226pp. Octavo [22 cm]. Bound in red leather; gilt stamped ornamentation on covers and spine. Title stamped in gilt on spine. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Beige moire endpapers and satin ribbon pagemarker. Corners lightly bumped. A somewhat controversial memoir of Watson's work on examining the double helix of DNA and the characters involved.
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My First Golden Learning Library (16 books in a box)
by Watson, Jane Werner
New York: Golden Press; Western Publishing Company, 1965. Early printings. William Dugan. Varying shades of foil paper spines, with pictorial paper over boards. All books are in very good plus or better condition, with minimal wear. In the publisher's yellow and brown box [14 1/4" by 8 3/4"]. The box is in very good condition, with some closed tears, a few pieces of tape, and a numerical notation in pen at the openings. Free of any ownership markings. A... Read More
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Piecing Me Together
by Watson, Renée
New York: Bloomsbury, 2018. Later printing. Paperback. New. 288pp. Octavo. Illustrated wraps. Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner New York Times bestseller Acclaimed author Renee Watson offers a powerful story about a girl striving for success in a world that too often seems like it's trying to break her.
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The Book of Mormon: An Essay on Its Claims and Prophecies
by Watson, Wingfield
1899. Second printing. Paperback. 18pp. Very thin duodecimo [19.5 cm] Very good. Unbound. The bottom edge of the first page is very lightly soiled. The pages are lightly browned. Flake 9636. In double columns. Enlarged version of his 1884 edition.
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The Pioneer Jews of Utah
by Watters, Leon L.
New York: American Jewish Historical Society, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 199pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue pebbled cloth over boards with lettering in gilt on the spine and front cover. Publisher's blue top stain. Very good, with light rubbing at the spine ends, and a previous owner's large bookplate on the front free endpaper. The text block is cracked at the title page, however the book is still very sturdy. Studies in American Jewish History, Number 2. From the Preface-... Read More
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The Pioneer Jews of Utah
by Watters, Leon L.
New York: American Jewish Historical Society, 1952. First paperback edition. Paperback. 199pp. Octavo [23 cm] Tan and black printed wrappers. Good. The wraps are lightly soiled, and there are two 1/4" closed tears in the paper at the head of the spine. There are a number of shallow closed tears and chips along the edges of the wraps as well. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the verso of the front cover. The text block is coming away... Read More
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The Things
by Watts, Peter; Illustrations by Todd Thyberg
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Angel Bomb, 2024. Limited Standard Edition (Signed and Numbered). Hardcover. New/As New. SIGNED. Slim quarto. Quarterbound book featuring Japanese book cloth and a foil-stamped cover. Decorative silver endpapers. In a metallic-blue dust jacket, UV-printed, and foil-stamped. Includes a standard UV flashlight. Prospectus tucked in. With hidden UV horrors. The ultraviolet ink has been specially developed for this book, and the binding has been done at Campbell Logan Bindery, Blaine, Minnesota. A short story by Peter... Read More
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Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica Part One and Part Two. Handbook of Middle American Indians Volume 10 and Volume 11 (2 volumes)
by Wauchope, Robert (General Editor) Gordon F. Ekholm and Ignacio Bernal (Editors)
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 903pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Rust colored cloth over boards. May require extra postage due to weight. Areas of darkening to the endpapers. In dust jackets, with light rubbing and creasing to the edges, and periodic shallow closed edge tears. The tenth and eleventh volumes in the fourteen-volume "Handbook of Middle American Indians.
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Thirteen Such Years
by Waugh, Alec; Lynd Ward
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good +. 277pp. Octavo [22 cm] Lime green cloth over boards, decoratively stamped in gilt. Full page frontispiece illustration by Lynd Ward from a wood engraving reproduced by an electrotype and printed in black. With just a little dulling and bumping to the edges of the book. In the beautiful Lynd Ward-illustrated dust jacket, which is in much nicer condition than typically seen, with only minor... Read More
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Hot Countries
by Waugh, Alec; Lynd Ward
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1930. Early printing. Hardcover. Good +. Lynd Ward. 304pp. Octavo [22 cm] Bluish green cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title and linear borders on the spine, and a gilt stamped palm tree vignette on the front cover. Yellow endpapers. The spine is faded and prominently rolled, there is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown, and the pages are browned. With woodcuts by Lynd Ward. A book relating the... Read More
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Most Women
by Waugh, Alec; Lynd Ward
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Lynd Ward. 323pp. Octavo [22 cm] in blue cloth with copper-stamped spine title and front and rear cover devices. No jacket. Rubbing to corners and spine tips, rubbing and light scratching to cover devices, else very light wear; small ink stain to textblock foot, light scuff to top edge, else interior is unworn. Faint musty scent. Written by the brother of Evelyn Waugh, this is Alec Waugh's romantic story of... Read More
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Happy Jack Squirrel Helps Unc' Billy
by W. Burgess, Thornton
Whitman Publishing, 1927. Hardcover. Poor. Harrison Cady. 29 pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. Booklet is detached from spine. Water damage to upper right corner of textblock. Rubbing to corners and spine ends. "Happy Jack Squirrel has a great surprise when, arriving at his house he finds another making himself entirely at home. What does Happy Jack do? He is angry of course, at first but he ends by helping the intruder."-from front pastedown.
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Lights and Shadows: A Collection of Poems Sombre and Gay
by Weaver, John Grenville
Salt Lake City, UT: The Deseret News, 1905. Hardcover. Good. 144pp. Quarto [25 cm] in gilt-stamped white cloth. Smudging and light wear to boards, lower corners bumped; interior is unmarked. Rare collection of poems, printed on laid paper, with decorative initials.
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Desert Wives: Polygamy Can Be Murder
by Webb, Betty
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 300pp. Octavo [22.5cm]. Rust colored cloth over boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine. Spine is a touch rolled. Dust jacket mildly rubbed. "If Betty Webb had gone undercover and written 'Desert Wives' as a piece of investigative journalism, she'd probably be up for a Pulitzer. The factual details -- supported by research cited in an afterward -- are eye-popping." - The New York... Read More
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Sugar House Review #8; Volume 5/Issue 1: Spring/Summer 2013
by Webb, Charles Harper; William Neumire, Judy Halebsky, Emma Ramey, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, et al. [Contributors]
Salt Lake City: Sugar House Review, 2013. First edition. Paperback. NEW. 93 pp. Octavo [22 cm].
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