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Six Black Masters of American Art
by BEARDEN, Romare and Harry Henderson
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company / Zenith Books, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Second edition(?), hardcover issue (issued simultaneously in both hard cover and soft cover). Octavo. Pictorial cloth. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a short tear and a little rubbing. Inscribed by the artist and co-author Romare Bearden to Richard Long: "For Richard, Romie." Accounts of the work of Joshua Johnston, Robert S. Duncanson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Horace Pippin, Augusta Savage, and Jacob Lawrence. Very scarce signed by Bearden.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 399557
- Title
- Six Black Masters of American Art
- Author
- BEARDEN, Romare and Harry Henderson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company / Zenith Books
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- African-Americana, Art/Illustration
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-Americana;
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
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