The Dust Within the Rock

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 the culture and religion of Navajo, Hopi, Pueblo, and pre-Columbian peoples. He felt that all his books were immediate failures in the beginning. However, they were constantly reprinted in small printings and translated into foreign languages until finally gaining worldwide recognition.