Marks Aka Jamake Highwater (3 results)

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. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. ).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Jerry Stoll (illustrator). 1st Edition. 32pp; stitched in self-covers (priced 10 cents, within); 238 x 157 mm periodical. Fifth issue of the SF Renaissance performing arts monthly (1960-2) founded together with the San Francisco Contemporary Dancers Foundation (1954-66) by the enigmatic J. Marks, choreographer, author, spurious native American apologist (as Jamake Highwater), & music journalist. Precedes his first book, Rock & Other Four-Letter Words (1968) with Linda Eastman photos. Including: 'The Place of Jazz' by Barry Ulanov; 'The Transient Art' by Ralph Gleason; 'Tennessee Williams in the Dance Theatre' by J. Marks, Director, Contemporary Dancers Company; 'Portfolio' of photos from the Monterey Jazz Festival by Jerry Stoll (including his iconic 1958 portrait of Billie Holliday); 'Jazz Dance' by Marshall Stearns; 'Avant-Garde Cinema in America' by Lewis Jacobs (with references to Kenneth Anger, Curtis Harrington, Maya Deren, James Broughton & Norman Mac Laren, among others); 'Stan Kenton at the Gold Nuggett' by Associate Editor Joanne Bridges; & a letter from Kenton (in facsimile). The upper cover, designed & produced as a half-leaf (trimmed on the bias) remains intact as issued (with Picasso illustration, 'Three Dancers'), though the red background ink has faded slightly. A nice copy of this early issue.