J Jamake Highwater Marks (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st (no Additional ptg). Creased front cover. 1" tear spine seam. Illustrated.

Mass Market Paperback. 189p., generously illustrated with excellently-reproduced b&w performance stills and personal photographs. Slick wraps, a mass-market pocketbook, paper very toned but not yet fragile, covers faintly edgeworn with a few faint pressure-marks, a very good copy of this peculiar item: sound, clean and unmarked. Book's back-cover offers a peek into Marks' background. Author's name here fills out to Jack Marks, but because he googles as "an East European of Jewish descent", "Jack Marks" may also be an invention. He died of a heart attack at home, having instructed an attorney to sequester his papers for fifty years. Marks held himself out most successfully as Jamake Mamake Highwater, son of a full-blooded Cherokee mother (disproved); he made a lot of money as a Native American, more money than Vine Deloria, who sold a lot of books based on his genuine nativity (and talent).…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. A paperback original. Author Jamake Highwater's SECOND book. About fine in pictorial printed wrappers. (A few faint spots of soiling on spine. ).

First Edition. Small Octavo. First edition paper back. 189pp., (3) pp. ads. Illustrated with photographic images. The author writes an astonishing biography of Rock's reigning Superstar.Mick Jaggar of the Rolling Stones. It's all here.the pre-Stone days, Altamont, Bianca, the power struggles, the busts, the music, the whirlwind American tours. This is a comprehensive and penetrating vision of Jagger, the man and the Myth and of the worshiping millions who seek his presence. Since 1962 Jagger and the Rolling Stones have remained one of the most famous bands of today. Here it is, 2023, Jagger is still the most energetic singer the world has ever known. Bound in pictorial stiff paper wraps, a little rubbing to lower edge with faint impressions of marks., all edges red.…