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African Folktales and Sculpture
by James Johnson Sweeney, Paul Radin, Elinore Marvel
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Houston, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Bollingen Foundation, New York, 1964. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Signed by the Author. Second Revised Edition.. 357 pages. Hardcover, bound in cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. There is some faint beginnings of foxing on the edge of the page block and the cloth covered boards, with some light shelfwear to the edges. Previous owner's bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown. Inscribed flamboyantly in ink on the front free endpaper by the legendary museum director and curator James Johnson Sweeney to the former Registrar of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Edward B. Mayo. The binding is tight, the edges and corners of the boards are sharp, and the interior is clean and free of markings (aside from the aforementioned dedication). Second edition, revised with additions. Texts in English. Photographs by Eliot Elisofen, Walker Evans, and others..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Exquisite Corpse, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021209
- Title
- African Folktales and Sculpture
- Author
- James Johnson Sweeney, Paul Radin, Elinore Marvel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Second Revised Edition.
- Publisher
- Bollingen Foundation, New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology; Art: African & Oceanic Art;
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About the Seller
Exquisite Corpse, Booksellers
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Houston, Texas
About Exquisite Corpse, Booksellers
Exquisite Corpse, Booksellers specializes in rare and out of print books of art, architecture, design, and photography.
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- Edges
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- Shelfwear
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- New
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- Fine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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