Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
African Textiles and Decorative Arts
by Sieber, Roy
- Used
- Condition
- G+. Wear and creasing to bottom corner of cover. Cracking and wear at spine with small piece missing. Contents clean and tight.
- ISBN 10
- 0870702289
- ISBN 13
- 9780870702280
- Seller
-
Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
2 Copies Available from This Seller
(You can add more at checkout.)
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1972. Softcover. G+. Wear and creasing to bottom corner of cover. Cracking and wear at spine with small piece missing. Contents clean and tight.. Brownish color illustrated wraps. 240 pp., 244 illustrations, with 40 in color. Issued in connection with the exhibition to be held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Oct. 11, 1972-Jan. 31, 1973, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 20-May 31, 1973, the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, July 2-Aug. 31, 1973, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct 3-Dec. 2, 1973. "This book is the most comprehensive pictorial survey available of the African arts of textile design and personal adornment. The textiles and ornaments presented in this volume were selected from more than 2400 examples photographed in some seventy public and private collections in North America. Included are pictures of costumes, headdresses and hair styles, jewelry and personal utensils, and decorative scarification and painting of the body." - World Cat Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238).
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 128921.1
- Title
- African Textiles and Decorative Arts
- Author
- Sieber, Roy
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - G+. Wear and creasing to bottom corner of cover. Cracking and wear at spine with small piece missing. Contents clean and tight.
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0870702289
- ISBN 13
- 9780870702280
- Publisher
- Museum of Modern Art
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- African Decorative Arts ; African Textiles, Decorative Arts ; ;
Terms of Sale
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
S&H is complicated, so please inquire for actual rates to your location if outside the US! Minimum s&h within the US $8.99, via media mail or first class if small. Discounts on shipping for multiple items. Overseas or overnight at cost +$4 supplies and handling. We currently are not shipping to Germany via Biblio - please contact us for information. Items returnable with prior notice if not as described within 7 days of delivery. Items 16 pages or less not returnable at all.
About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
Biblio member since 2004
Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
Specializing in Fine and Decorative Arts, Photography and Gallimaufry since 1993. Visits encouraged by appointment to see our 70,000+ volumes. Many titles not online, call with wants and needs.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.