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Shoowa Design: Textiles Africains du Royaume Kuba
by MEURANT, Georges
Bruxelles: Credit Communal, 1995. First edition. Softcover. 206 pages. Text in French. Includes 102 color plates and numerous black and white illustrations. A near fine copy in wrappers in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear.
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£68.09
Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art, The Walther Collection
Neu-Ulm and Gottingen, Germany: The Walther Collection and Steidl, 2017. Hardcover. 384 pages. Features the work of Edson Chagas, Mimi Cherono Ng ok, Andrew Esiebo, Em kal Eyongakpa, François-Xavier Gbré, Simon Gush, Délio Jasse, Lebohang Kganye, Sabelo Mlangeni, Mame-Diarra Niang, Dawit L. Petros, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Thabiso Sekgala, and Michael Tsegaye. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap.
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£52.07
African Sculpture
by Polzer, Joseph
Louisville, Kentucky: University of Louisville, 1966. Pamphlet. VG but with art museum stamp on front cover.. Glossy, bw tri-fold wraps with white lettering. 6 panels with 5 bw illus. Catalogue from the exhibition of December 1966. The works are listed in alpabetical order by collection name and, within that, by tribe. All works in the exhibition were made of wood. Collections represented included the Anita Glaze Collection, Indiana University Art Museum, Museum of Primitive Art (New York), and the Roy...
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£25.63
African Sculpture
by Sweeney, James Johnson
Princeton University Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1970. Softcover. Former owner is social anthropologist Wyatt MacGaffey, and his elegant signature is found on the first endpaper, also some penciled notes on the verso of the back cover, both in light pencil. Light wear to card covers, spine crease, contents are Fine. . 187 b/w plates, index. . Bollingen Series Series. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 196 pages. K0 .
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£18.02
Unearthing Igbo-Ukwu: Archaeological Discoveries in Eastern Nigeria
by Shaw, Thurstan
Ibadan, Nigeria: Oxford University Press, 1977. Paperback. VG+. light scuffs & edge-wear to covers. interior clean. tight binding.. Brown wraps with color illustrations and light yellow lettering. 121 pp. Profuse BW illustrations. "In Unearthing Igbo-Ukwu Thurstan Shaw tells the story of the excavations which he carried out at three different sites in the town of Igbo-Ukwu. He describes the beautiful and remarkable objects which were uncovered, and discusses the problems of dating the finds and of...
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£76.10
Circle-Dot Symbolic Sign on African Ivory Carvings
by Segy, Ladislas
Louvain (Belgium): Zaire Belgian African Review, 1953. Reprint by Segy Gallery. Softcover. VG+ contents; covers have light shelf wear.. Grey wraps with black lettering; 20 pp.; 21 bw figures; sheet noting picture credits laid in. Extensive text by Segy examining the encircled dot symbol often found in African ivory carvings. A reprint by the Segy Gallery of Seby's article from Vol. VII, No. I of "Zaire, Belgian African Review.
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£28.04
Selections from the Paul Tishman Collection of African Sculpture
by Sieber, Roy
Cambridge, Mass: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969. Softcover. G- (Cover may have borne the brunt of slight age and soiling; interior surfaces are quite clean.). White & BW illus. stapled wraps, [40 pp.], BW illus. Issued in conjunction with a 1969 exhibition of pieces from this reknown collection. With an introduction by Roy Sieber, and many BW illustrations of the selections. Rare.
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£52.07
Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention
by LAMP, Frederick
Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 267 pages. Forewords by Simon Ottenberg and Djibril Tamsir Niane. Text by Frederick Lamp with additional c ontributions by Sekou Beka Bangoura, Adolphe Camara, P.E.H. Hair, Djibril Tamsir Niane, "The Baga Youth, and forty Baga consultants. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A tight near fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket with some minor wear and tears to the top of the rear panel near the spine and top corner.
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£80.10
Tribes and Forms in African Art
by William Fagg
NY: Tudor Publishing Co, 1965. Hardcover. Good-/good- (rip to cloth on front, soiling around edges. dj is worn with many chips and tears around edges. glue applied to dj flap is acidic and has caused discoloration. binding intact, pages unmarked). Yellow cloth. White and orange illustrated dust jacket. Approx 23 + 244 pages. BW illustrations. Covers 122 tribes of sub-Saharan Africa, with a brief description of the tribe and an illustration of a work of their art.
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£24.01
The Helena Rubinstein Collection: African and Oceanic Art Parts One and Two
by Parke-Bernet Galleries
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1966. Softbound. VG, slight and light crease to upper right cover corner and pages, a very clean and tight copy. Green and White wraps, [12] 250pp, profuse BW illustrations. Each part of this catalog listing is well annotated and some contains historical background or usage of the piece. Sale dates were Thursday, April 21 and Friday April 29, 1966. Mainly sculpture. A vital reference and a respectable copy. Prices realized written in, using ink.
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£384.48
Art d'Oceanie, d'Afrique et d'Amerique Recentes Acquisitions
by Jeanneret, A. Ch.Kaufmann, J.Laude, William Rubin and C.Savery
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...
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£28.04
Exposition de Tableaux, de Dessins et de Sculpture Sud-Africains: Précédée d'une Série de Peintures Historiques
by Association sud-africaine des arts
Cape Town: L'Association, 1949. Softcover. G, light fade on edges, corner dog-earred, but doesn't affect illustrations which are bright and clean.. Stapled wrap. [6] pages of plates, 32 pages : illustrations (some color). Text in French. Historical Paintings of South Africa from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 62 artists presented by a short biography, 12 works reproduced including 2 in color. Includes index.
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£88.11
Impressions from South Africa: 1965 to Now
by Hecker, Judith B
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2011. Paperback. VG. BW-illustrated and white wraps with red and yellow lettering. 96 pp. Color and BW illlustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from March 23 - August 14, 2011.
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£24.01
L'art negre; l'art animiste des noirs d'Afrique
by Hardy, Georges
Paris: Henri Laurens, 1927. Paperback. Very Good. 24 plates (back-to-back on 12 leaves), 166p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Moderate cover wear including some vertical splitting on backstrip. Text browning. Gift inscription. French text.
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£60.08
African Sculpture
by Segy, Ladislas
NY: Dover Publications, 1958. Softcover. G+, Wear and tanning to wraps with some minor stains. Contents clean and tight with tanning of page edges. Stains to outer edges of text block. An excellent reading or research copy.. Bw wraps. 34 pp. + 164 bw plates. Plates arranged as follows: French Sudan, French Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, British Nigeria, Cameroons, French Equatorial Africa, Belgian Congo, Angola.
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£24.01
Africana Gandensia, [No.] 1
Gent: Seminarie voor Afrikaanse Culturgeschiedenis, 1976. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations (black & white), 162p. Sftcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Ex lib. (stamping front cover indicated this was discarded by Tozzer Library at Harvard. Articles in Dutch, English and French.
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£20.03
Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back
by McClusky, Pamela
Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum / Princeton University Press, 2002. Softcover. VG. Some soiling (coffee ring) on cover. Owner's writing on first page, tanning along page edges, some soiling on page edging; otherwise clean contents.. Color pictorial wraps, green spine with pale yellow lettering; French flaps. 302 pp. Profusely illustrated in BW and color. Accompanied the exhibition of the same name held at the Seattle Art Museum February 7-May 19, 2002. Presents twelve "case histories" of...
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£24.01
Closeup: Lessons in The Art of Seeing African Sculpture From an American Collection and the Horstmann Collection
by THOMPSON, Jerry L. and Susan Vogel
New York: The Center for African Art, 1990. First edition. Softcover. 194 pages. Preface by Susan Vogel. Includes essays by Jerry Thompson, Vogel, and with catalogue by Anne D'Alleva. Includes numerous color and some black and white illustrations. A very good copy in wrappers with a slight crease to the top front corner.
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£16.02
Works of Art by the People of Southern Africa II / Imisebenzi Yobuciko Bezizwe Yase Mzansu Afrika II
by Richardson, Jill K. and Ilaria L. St. Florian (eds.)
Boston: Pucker Gallery, 1995. Softcover. VG-. Minor cover wear.. Rust stapled wraps with color illustrations and black lettering. 13 pp. with 83 works pictured in color. Includes works collected from Zambia and South Africa. With an essay about a Zambian field trip in 1994 and with descriptions of each work as well as additional notes. Includes a small map.
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£24.01
Collection Jolika: chefs-d'œuvre de Nouvelle-Guinée provenant des Fine Arts Museum de San Francisco. Sale code: SAVAGE-3575
by Christie's Paris
Paris: Christie's, 2013. Softcover. VG. Glossy pictorial wraps. 64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color). Text in French. Translated: "Jolika Collection: New Guinea masterpieces from the Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco". Lots 1-15. See: Art africain et océanien : collection Bartos et sélection d'œuvres provenant de l'Art Institute of Chicago, sale code SNAKE-3553, June 19, 2013 for lots 16-132./ Place of sale: Paris. Date of sale: June 19, 2013.
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£32.04
William Kentridge: Tapestries
by Basualdo, Carlos (editor)
Philadelphia/New Haven, CT: Philadelphia Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2008. Hardcover. VG+. Color illustrated paper over boards; tan spine with black and red lettering. 115 (5) pp. Profusely illustrated with color plates and figures. Accompanied the exhibition of the same name held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art December 12, 2007 to April 6, 2008. Includes a foreword by Anne d'Harnoncourt, as well as essays by Carlos Basualdo, Gabriele Guercio, Okwui Enwezor, and Ivan Vladislavic. South...
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£24.03
Art of the Senses: African Masterpieces from the Teel Collection
by Bier, Suzanne Preston (editor)
Boston, Massachusetts: MFA Publications / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. VG. Black cloth, off-white & illus. dust jacket, 208 pp., 138 color illus., 9 BW illus. "How the unique 'look' of African art captured the imagination of artists such as Picasso and Stieglitz is well known. But how do art aficionados today see African objects? And how does our view compare with the way these objects were seen in Africa? Presenting this magnificent collection for the first time, [this...
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£16.02
Masques Africains
by BLEAKLEY, Robert
Paris: Chene, 1978. First edition. Softcover. Text in French. Includes 40 color illustrations. A very good copy in wrappers with some light wear.
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£32.04
Les Chefs-D'Oeuvre Africains Des Collections Privees Francaises / African Masterpieces From Private French Collections
by Riviere, Marceau
Paris, France: Editions Philbi, 1975. Hardcover. VG (spine top bumped. cloth boards scuffed w/ some scattered, light spotted foxing. textblock edges foxed. dustjacket has scuffs & scratches; rubbed edge). green cloth boards w/ gilt printing. illustrated pastedowns & endpapers. book v, 173 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. black, illustrated dustjacket w/ plastic cover. A nice, bright copy. Thoroughly illustrated. Captions in French, English and German.
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£52.07
Antiquites Africaines. Tome 1, 1967
by Collectif
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.
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£15.62