Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People by Gregson Davis ISBN 13: 9780912020303

E-147: Scrimshaw Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Scrimshaw Press, San Francisco, CA. 1973. 141 pages. Illustrated with some color and black and white plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth with black and white pastedown present to the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. A portrait of the island and peoples of Antigua, with text by Gregson Davis, old color illustrations, and many black & white photos by Margo Davis. From the introduction: "We offer on the pages of this book a straightforward view of rural Antigua. It is not the Antigua of congested city streets, hectic supermarkets, busy bureaucrats and oil refineries, nor the sentimentalized Antigua of the folklorists, nor yet the paradisiacal Antigua of the tourist brochures. It is the Antigua… Read more

Scrimshaw Press, 1973. Hardcover. Good.

Scrimshaw Press. Dust jacket is covered with mylar jacket protector. Edition consisted of 5,000 copies. Light water staining to bottom of dust jacket spine . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1973.

San Francisco, CA: Scrimshaw Press, 1973. 1st printing; 141 clean, unmarked pages; dj w/lite wear only, price neatly inked out, in mylar; lovely owner's insc. grey c w/black titles. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Margo Davis Photos. Elephant Folio.

Scrimshaw Press, 1973-01-01. Hardcover. Like New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Small tear on dj. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Scrimshaw Press, 1973. Book. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Brown pictorial cloth with black tiles. This copy is FINE in an unclipped ($27.50) DJ. Exterior is rich with only a hint of edge wear.. Inside is unmarked, crisp, and tightly bound. DJ is unmarked with minimal/modest edge wear. Very nice..

San Francisco: Scrimshaw Press, 1973. Hardcover. 141p., 10.5x12.5 inches, illustrated with period images (some in color) and Margo Davis's b&w photography, good first edition in cloth boards with plate affixed to the cover, in a slightly edgeworn dust jacket which is also lightly stained and with a small closed tear,

Signed, Inscribed, and Dated by both the Author and Photographer, Gregson Davis and Margo Davis, on the Title Page. One of 5,000 Copies. This Book is in Good Condition. The Brown Paper Dust Jacket has Light Soiling to the Surface and some Edgewear, including Small Areas of Chipping at the Head and Base of the Spine, several 1" long or smaller Tears and associated Creases to the Top and Bottom Edges of the Front and Rear Covers, and a 3" long Tear at the Bottom Edge of the Rear Cover, but the Dust Jacket has No Other Major Damage. The Hardcover Boards have Very Light, Very Small Corner Bumping but No Tears, Stains, or Other Major Damage. The Binding is Strong, Intact, and Undamaged. The Interior is Clean and Unmarked with No Writing, Highlighting, or Underlining and has Very Light Foxing to the Pages adjacent to the End Pages but No Tears, Creases, Stains, Musty Odor, or Other Major Damage. The Page Edges have Light Foxing but No Remainder Mark, Stains, or Other Major… Read more

San Francisco: Scrimshaw Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 141 pages. First edition. Oversize hardcover, 10.5 x 12.5 inches. Very Good, in a like Dustjacket. Minor edge & corner wear. Some light foxing on half-title page. Former owner's name penned of front endpaper. Jacket has edge & corner wear; a small amt. of soiling & staining - in protective mylar. Gray, cloth boards with black stamping on cover & spine. Photo tipped in on cover. Profuse color & b/w photos & illustrations. PHOTOGRAPHY.

San Francisco, CA: Scrimshaw Press, 1973. First edition, 1973. Compelling photographs in both black and white and in color. Brown cloth with dustjacket, 12.5 inches tall and 10.5 inches wide. The book is in very good condition with firm binding, clean pages with some very minor age-speckling to the bottom of the half-title, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [27.50] and has some minor shelf soil and subtle spotting to the plain light brown background, no chips or tears.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - 12" - 15" Tall.

Hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

new near perfect oversize hc, expedited and international shipping not available

San Francisco, Scrimshaw Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 141 pages; Description: 141 p. Illus. 32 cm. Bibliography: p. 141. Subjects: Antigua.