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Wall-Paintings by Snakecharmers in Tanganyika
by H. Cory
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, slight bump to top right corner; otherwise, strong sound binding in a clean state with no interior markings, maintain/Very good jacket, light chipping and tears to perimeter aspects, no large tears or missing sections, some minor fading/discolora
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About This Item
New York City, NY: Grove Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover 4to with orange cloth boards and gilt spine lettering in an illustrated dust jacket, 99 pp. Very good, slight bump to top right corner; otherwise, strong sound binding in a clean state with no interior markings, maintained bright plates and text blocks./Very good jacket, light chipping and tears to perimeter aspects, no large tears or missing sections, some minor fading/discoloration, overall very good.. Jacket Design by Roy Kuhlman. Published a year before Julius Nyere's anti-colonial imperative to liberate Tanganyika as a sovereign land in the formation of Tanganyika African National Union in 1954, this impressive collection of colored plates and history points to the "rites of initiation into a secret society...show a finely developed feeling for linear form and for symmetry, and an elaborate use of a few natural paints." Authored by government anthropologist H. Cory. very early Grove title published by Barney Rosset, who acquired Grove in 1951.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 359
- Title
- Wall-Paintings by Snakecharmers in Tanganyika
- Author
- H. Cory
- Illustrator
- Jacket Design by Roy Kuhlman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover 4to with orange cloth boards and gilt spine lettering in an illustrated dust jacket, 99 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, slight bump to top right corner; otherwise, strong sound binding in a clean state with no interior markings, maintain
- Jacket Condition
- Very good jacket, light chipping and tears to perimeter aspects, no large tears or missing sections, some minor fading/discolora
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York City, NY
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Tanzania, Tanganyika, 1950s, Africana, Africa
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