Search Results: African Art from Design Books

New York: Phillips de Pury & Company , 2010. This is a very good softcover copy with light wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Phillips de Pury & Company in New York on May 15, 2010. Another theme auction, this one features the work of contemporary African artists, both in Africa and the diaspora. Essay by Yinka Shonibare. Essay on Monique Barbier-Mueller. Essay by Kobena Mercer 'Radio Ethiopia'. Interview with Youssef Nabil. Essay by Iggy Cortez on 'West Africa's Musical Heart Beat'. Interviews with Jakob Boeskov, Teco Benson and Kendall Geers. Artists biographies. 233 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color or black & white (some of the vintage photographs). Prices realized sheets included. Oversize catalog. 15" high X 10" wide, 248 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980. This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby Parke Bernet in New York on April 22, 1980. Sale number: 4363. The sale consisted of African and Oceanic art from various collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (about 20 pieces). Also 4 pieces from the William N. Copley collection. 143 lots in the sale. Almost all illustrated in black & white + color plate on front cover. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. 9" square. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Berlin: Im Furche-Kunstverlag , 1924. This is a very good softcover copy, clean inside, cover corners chipped. This is Band 6 in the series"Schopfung Beitrage zu Einer Weltgeschichte Religioser Kunst Herausgegeben von Oskar Beyer". 20 black & white plates. Text in German. 10" high X 8" wide, 34 text pages + plates. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Paris: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, 1967. This is a very good softcover copy of this journal with only light wear and cover soil. Spine not creased, binding tight. Very clean inside. Text in French. Articles by 9 scholars on African antiquities. Illustrated in black & white. 11" high X 8" wide, 144 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Geneva: Collection Barbier-Muller, 1977. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Glossy pictorial stiff card covers completely clean. Completely clean inside as well. Spine not creased, binding tight. Text in French. Short essays by Andre Jeanneret, Ch.Kaufmann, Jean Laude, William Rubin, Claude Savery. 63 works in the exhibition, short entries for each. 22 tipped-in color plates + 6 topped-in black & white plates. 10" high X 7" wide, 129 pages. A fine copy. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking. . Limited Edition. 500 Copies.. Soft Cover. Fine.

Cape Town, South Africa: Athi-Patra Ruga / WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery, 2013. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. The spine is not creased. Essays by Linda Stupart, Fiona Siegenthaler, Anthea Buys, Koyo Kouoh, Sandrine Micosse and Josgua Kwesi Aikins. Illustrated throughout in color. Exhibition history. 12" high X 8" wide, 114 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Fine.

Zurich: Galarie Watu , 2001. This is a fine hardcover copy with almost no wear bound in a white plastic ring binder. Completely clean. This catalog is an attempt to classify the Yoruba twin figures known as Ibeji statuettes. Illustrated throughout in color with photographs of the Ibeji statuettes. Bibliography. 12" high X 10" wide, 26 text pages + maps + several pages of the 'Index of Catalogued Types'. Large heavy book foreign postage will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Fine.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1932. This is a very good hardcover copy in brown and red marbled paper-covered boards and tan cloth spine, with a dark green and gilt title label on the spine. Just light wear. A few light pencil marks to the catalogues. 14 catalogues in all on Asia, Africa and the rest of the Far East. About 500 pages. A little light staining to the corners of pages of one of the catalogues. Thousands of books catalogued. All catalogues from the 1930's. Collector bookplate to the inside front cover. 8" high X 5.5" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Paris: Caisse Nationale Des Monuments Historiques, 1965. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. Jacket spine edges rubbed. Completely clean inside and out. Text in French. Introduction by Roger Heim and J. Millot. Interview with Georges-Henri Rivière by Michel Leiris. Four sections in the book which document the Musee de l'Homme's spectacular collections: 1) Prehistoric, text by Guy de Beauchêne; 2) Africa, text by Michel Leiris and Jacqueline Delange; 3) Oceanic, text by Françoise Girard; and 4) Pre-Hispanic and Native American, text by Henri Lehmann. Bibliography. Illustrated in color 6 tipped-in plates + 84 black & white plates. 10" high X 9" wide, 232 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Sotheby's, 2013. This is a near fine softcover copy of this two volume set with almost no wear. Just light cover wear to volume 1. Completely clean. These are sale catalogs for auctions held at Sotheby's New York. Volume 1: sale code "N09040", auction date November 15, 2013. Volume 2: sale code N09224, auction date May 16, 2014. Essays by Michael Kan and Marci Kwon. Volume 1: 154 lots. Volume 2: 123 lots. All lots illustrated in color. Many have extrensive entries. Also additional essays by Heinrich Schweizer, Sidney Clyman, Maureen Zarember, Victor Teicher, and Sotheby's staff. 12" high X 9" wide, 239 & 183 pages. Large heavy books foreign postage will be extra. This set will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth GMBH , 1937. This is a beautiful, flawless copy in dark blue cloth with bright gilt titles on cover and spine, in a fine dust jacket with virtually no wear. Protected in a mylar wrap. Text in German. Short foreword and introduction. 120 full-page plates in color and black & white. Extensive notes to the plates. This is a world survey of ornamental motifs. Spanning several millenia and many Asian, European, Oceanic, African and American peoples. Crafts of all kinds are represented, such as clothing and textiles, ceramics, metalwork, woodwork, etc. Overall a gorgeous copy. 13" high X 10" wide, 48 text pages + plates. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Paris: Editions Dapper, 1997. This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear: a vertical crease line running the length of the spine, but binding firm and tight. No other flaws. Completely clean. Text in French. This catalog was prepared to accompany the important exhibition at the Musee Dapper in Paris. Illustrated with numerous color plates, black & white reproductions of old prints, maps, etc. Bibliography. Includes extracts from Gunter Tessmann" "Les Pahouins" of 1913 (Die Pangwe) translated into French and published here for the first time. 13" high X 9" wide, 324 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Pretoria, South Africa : J.L Van Schaik, 1967. This is a very good hardcover copy in the publisher's original gray printed boards with just light wear. Very clean inside and out. Faint offsetting to endpapers. Tiny abrasions to top edges of a few pages. No marks to text. 9" high X 6" wide, 215 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2002. This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text block page edges just starting to yellow a bit. This monograph was prepared to document the important collection of Akan gold objects that was donated to the Houston Museum of Fine Arts by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. in 1997. Essays by Doran Ross and Frances Marzio. Profusely illustrated in color. Several useful appendices: 1) Regalia of the Asantehene; 2) Akan Figures from Popular Bands; and 3) African Gold from Senegal, Mali and Kenya. Bibliography. 11" high X 8" wide, 303 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: Grove Press, 1969. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear. Very clean inside and out. This is a review copy with the publisher's card laid-in. The golden city of the title refers to Johannesburg, South Africa, from whose streets can be seen the hills with the gold mines that made South Africa rich. 8" high X 5.5" wide, 141 pages. A very nice review copy. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking. . First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Review Copy.

New Hyde Park, NY : University Books , 1968. This is a very good two volume hardcover set (complete), in very good dust jackets with just light wear, spines sunned. Very clean inside and out. This is the 1968 reprint of the classic of African ethnography on the Ila speaking peoples, first published in 1920. Illustrated throughout in black & white with photographs by Edwin Smith and drawings, maps, etc. 9" high X 6" wide, 423 & 433 pages. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Sotheby's, 2014. This is an about very good softcover copy. Completely clean inside and out. Heel of spine bumped, this is not visible internally. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's New York on November 11, 2014. Sale number: NO9225 " CURTIS". The sale consisted of the lifetime collection of African art assembled by Myron Kunin (1928- 2013). Essays by Michael Fitzgerald and Heinrich Schweizer. African art mostly from west Africa: the Ivory Coast. 164 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. Many with extensive entries. 12" high X 9" wide, 356 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019. This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean. This monograph was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the New Museum in New York from June 26 to October 6, 2019. Catalog edited by Natalie Bell. Texts by Bell, Jexxica Bell Brown, Fred Moten and the artist. Illustrated in color. Interview with Himid. 10" high X 7" wide, 175 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Munchen: Hirmer Verlag, 1989. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in German. Illustrated in black & white with photographs, tables, graphs, etc. 10" high X 7" wide, 290 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Munchen: Hirmer Verlag, 1990. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with light wear, a few scuff marks on front cover. Completely clean inside. Text in German. Illustrated in black & white with photographs, tables, graphs, etc. 10" high X 7" wide, 333 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.