3 Frank Waters first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Man Who Killed the Deer signed first (1942) to Book of the Hopi (1963) across 3 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Frank Waters title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.
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- The Man Who Killed the Deer signed first — 1942 · Farrar & RinehartThe true first edition is Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1942. The first printing carries the Rinehart colophon on the copyright page with no statement of any later printing, and because there is no number line that copyright-page wording is the sole textual identifier. The first-issue dust jacket carries its printed price on the front flap. Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1942 is the true first edition. Book-club editions and later printings (including the reset editions of 1965 and 1971, some with a Lawrence Clark Powell introduction and Don Perceval illustrations not present in the 1942 first) reprint the text but are not the first edition. Because there is no number line, the copyright-page wording is the sole textual identifier — read it carefully, confirming the Rinehart colophon and the absence of any….
- Masked Gods — 1950 · University of New Mexico PressThe first edition of Masked Gods: Navaho and Pueblo Ceremonialism is the University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1950 printing, 438 pages, illustrated and decorated by Ralph Douglass, professor of art at the University of New Mexico; a contemporary scholarly review in The Americas independently records the Albuquerque/UNM Press/1950/438pp collation. The trade issue is tan cloth with black spine lettering and…. The census is right that the UNM Press 1950 printing is the true first, but "UNM Press 1950 only" understates the trap and is corrected here: a Sage Books / Swallow Press SECOND edition is also dated 1950 and is cataloged variously at Denver and at Chicago, so the year alone identifies nothing. Multiple ABAA and independent dealers list the Sage/Swallow book explicitly as the second edition. US-only,…. The dominant reprint tell is the Sage Books/Swallow Press issue bearing the same 1950 date — check the title-page imprint, because "1950" alone does not mean first. Later reissues that are "first thus" rather than firsts include Swallow Press printings (1970 and 1975), Ballantine and later University of New Mexico Press paperbacks (recorded circa 1962, 1972, 1973, 1984 and 1987), and the Swallow Press/Ohio….
- Book of the Hopi — 1963 · The Viking PressThe Viking Press, New York, 1963 (published December 1963; LCCN 63-19606). The copyright page carries Viking's first-publication statement dated 1963 — 'First published in 1963' — with no later-printing notice; Viking's house practice from the late 1930s onward was to state the year of first publication and to add a notice for every subsequent printing, so any stated 'Second printing' (those copies are dated…. US only. The Viking Press, New York, 1963 is the true first — there is no UK first-edition competitor and no original-language question, as the book was written in English. Title trap worth flagging: library cataloguing of the 1963 Viking sheets gives the title as 'Book of the Hopi', without the definite article, while later paperbacks and many dealer listings style it 'The Book of the Hopi'. The Payot (French)…. No book-club edition is documented for the Viking 1963. The reprint traps are Viking's own later printings, which state themselves (the second printing is dated 1964 and carries a stated printing notice), the Ballantine mass-market paperback (from 1972) and the Penguin paperback (from 1977) — both commonly shelved as 'The Book of the Hopi'. Any copy in a paperback wrapper, or bearing a Penguin or Ballantine….
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