His Eye Is On the Sparrow de Waters, Ethel \(with Charles Samuels\) - 1951

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1951. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, Later Printing.. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1951. First Edition, later printing. Near Fine/Very Good+. Early printing of the first edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean gray cloth boards with dark blue lettering on spine. No fraying or fading. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Beautiful photo-decorated endpapers. No names,m writing or marks. 278 pages. Clean jacket with publisher's price of 3.00 on front inside flap, slight edge wear, a few very short closed edge tears; lovely full panel photo of Waters on rear of jacket; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Autobiography of a truly inspiring great theatrical personality, brilliant actress and singer. She was a black woman, illegitimate, born in the Chester, Pennsylvania slums, unloved by her slatternly mother, pimp's errand girl, honky-tonk singer, and then, by turn, a fabulously successful blues singer and actress. Deep faith and belief in God gave her the strength and determination to make the long, hard pull from tenements and cheap roadhouses to Hollywood cameras and Broadway lights..