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1986x01330New York: Garland Publishing 1986. 8vo. 428 pp. Green cloth. Book condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Garland Publishing hardcover
193820516aPaul Hartmann 1938. Paperback. Very Good. Hardcover no dust jacket. Light shelfwear to covers with edgewear around corners. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Text in English. Contents clean and tight. 183 b&w photos. Paul Hartmann paperback
2000x-0631201793Blackwell Pub 2000. Paperback. New. 664 pages. 9.50x6.75x1.50 inches. Blackwell Pub paperback
195240283Paris Paul Hartmann Editeur 1952 paperback. First Edition First Printing. -- Introduction by Charles d'Ydewalle text in FRENCH. Photo captions are in French Dutch English. Noted photographer Pierre Verger has captured aspects of these countries of Africa: trade and transport personal textiles and adornment hunting feasts agriculture recreation and religion and much more. -- Softcover 7x10 inches. Condition: good-plus paper spine is unglued and torn corner lightly bumped couple pages taped; owner name; top-edge roughly cut. The black-and-white photograph pages are mostly sound and bright. Paul Hartmann Editeur paperback
2000mon0004157514Oxford University Press 2/13/2026 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Like New. 1.7700 9.9200 6.9300. Oxford University Press hardcover
2000Q-0966223101Milestones Pub 2000-02-07. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Milestones Pub paperback
1999127144Canberra: ABRS / CSIRO 1999. 2nd edition. As New. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket xxiv 670pp. col. pls. references index New edition containing entirely new essays on many aspects of the flora and Australian plant taxonomy ABRS / CSIRO hardcover
1909796941909. STOVALL Genie Orchard. A Son of Carolina. Original pictorial cloth. New York: The Neale Publishing Company 1909. First edition. Krick 488: "After the Civil War in the vicinity of Charleston Negro squatters burn down a big plantation house and attempt to murder its owner and his recently returned lover. He fights clear she dies of over exertion." Spine spine ends and corners rubbed slightly shaken ese very good. unknown
2000007452Hatje Cantz Verlag Stuttgart 2000. Book. Fine Condition. Wrappers. 347 pp. 571 illustrations 337 in color. Text is in German. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Sprengel Museum Hannover 20 August-5 November 2000 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf 25 November 2000-18 February 2001 and the Haus der Kunst München 9 March-20 May 2001. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Stuttgart Paperback
1982016960Corrupio Salvador and Bahia 1982. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Inscribed by the Artist. 274 pages. Oblong format hardcover bound in black cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Inscribed in black ink on the half title page by the artist to one of his early benefactors Dominique de Menil: "pour Madame de Menil en souvenir d'une rencontre a Buenos Aires en 1941 signature Bahia 14 III 83." Dustjacket has some wear to the edges from shelving but is now encased in a Mylar sleeve. Otherwise the binding and jacket appear to be in fine condition. Text in Portuguese with numerous reproductions in rich black and white. Beautifully captured images from around the world of a variety of cultures and peoples. Corrupio, Salvador and Bahia Hardcover
194515064Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana 1945. Former owner's signature slightly discolored at the spine heel; a very good copy in a very good jacket chipped at the spine heel lightly edgeworn. Uncommon in jacket. First Edition. Quarto. Prologue by Luis E. Valcáral translated to English in the rear. 148 images of Andean rituals captioned in Spanish and English. Printed in a washed-out but alluring gravure. The Latin American Photobook p. 8. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana unknown
1966x1264New York: AMS Press 1966. Two volumes complete reprinting this anthology of short excerpts transcribed - but NOT translated - from medieval manuscripts too short or unrelated to better-known works to be published elsewhere first published in 1841 & 1843. Includes religious comment versions of the Lord's Prayer prophecies satire fables comments on women saints a Christmas carol middle-English glosses short plays an Anglo-Norman drinking song qualities for a priest poem on old age much more. Regrettably there is no table of contents nor any translations of even the least recondite languages but there is an index in volume II and sources are noted dated by century. Nevertheless a fascinating collection of verse and prose on a variety of subjects of interest to linguists sociologists students of religion English history & culture. Two volumes complete; as pictured; no jackets as issued. Light wear minor scuffs. Texts clean no names or marks; 2 iv 327; 2 iv 287 pages index. Text in Old English Middle English Latin Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Norman. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo. Set. AMS Press Hardcover
198714195Editora Corrupio 1987. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. Bright in fine interior but yellowed page edges; There is one serious crack in binding with corresponding crease in spine which hasn't split yet but on the verge of it; gatefold wraps have two creased corners and mild shelf wear overall; massive 718pp tome not counting the substantial section of BW plates. Translation from French to Portuguese by Tasso Gadzanis and Vanya King. Only one thousand copies printed of this 2nd edition 1987 which is a sad state of affairs since this is easily in the top 5 best books of all time on this subject. Please no offers on this item because the price of this book we have scheduled to go up in the future and not down. <br/> <br/> Editora Corrupio paperback
1991Q-0907383254James & James Publishers Ltd 1991-01-01. hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! James & James (Publishers) Ltd hardcover
1950541930pocahontas Press. Very Good/Good. 1950. Hard Cover. K386 a very good hard cover with a good dust jacket . pocahontas Press hardcover
1999Q-0304351342UNKNO 1999. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! UNKNO paperback
199350326Paris: Editions Revue Noire / DAP Publ 1993. First Edition ~1st Printing. Hardcover. collection of the acclaimed black photographer's work very good in near fine dust jacket; minor bumping to bottom of spine small nick in jacket on outer edge of front cover else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; first printing; text in English and French Editions Revue Noire / DAP Publ hardcover
1996190244Paris and New York: Revue Noire and D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers Inc 1996. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 240 pages. Text in English and French by Jean Loup Pivin and Pascal Martin Saint Leon. Includes numerous black and white images. A clean and tight very near fine copy in photo-illustrated boards and in a very near fine dust jacket. A terrific retrospective look at this underappreciated French photographer. Revue Noire and D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers Inc unknown
1994Q-052145090xCambridge University Press 1994-05-27. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Cambridge University Press hardcover
1930172285Circa1930s. A collection of 4 striking black and white photographic reproductions taken at some time from high quality 1930s magazines with images on both sides. 34 x 26.2cm. Chin-San-Long was born in 1892 in the Huaiyin district of Jiangsu Province. Spanning the entire course of the development of photography in China his photographic career began in 1904 at the early age of thirteen and did not cease until his passing in 1995 at the age of 104. <br> <br>Pierre Verger took up the career of journalistic photographer at the age of 30 after losing his family. Over the next 15 years he travelled four continents documenting many civilisations that would soon be effaced by progress. His destinations included Japan and China in 1934 and 1937 and the Philippines and Indochina in 1938. <br> <br>Arthur de Carvalho was an amateur photographer working in the Far East during the 1930s. He employed a moody pictorialist style in the creation of his work. <br> <br>Therese le Prat was a French photographer and artist active from the 1930s to 1966. . unknown
1981109431Corrupio 1981. Hardcover. Good. Glossy harciver no jacket. Bumped corners at spine. Wonderful glossy color illustrations on every page. Corrupio hardcover
19583531<p>Cuba 196 photographies de pierre verger preface et notes de lydia cabreracuba 196 fotografias de pierre vergerprefacio y notas de lydia cabreracuba 196 photographs by pierre verger forewood an notes by lydia cabrera primera edicion la casa belga habana y les presses paris 1958 nueva encuadernacion buen estado el libro esta en tres idiomasfrancesingles y espanol.edicion original con bellas fotografias de pierre vergery con nota introductoria de lydia cabreralibro raro de coleccion.<strong>Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger</strong> nacido el4 de noviembre de 1902 en ParÃs Francia y murió el11 de febrero de 1996 en Salvador de BahÃa Brasil es fotógrafo y etnólogo francés .También llevaba el nombre de <strong>Fatumbi</strong> " Ifa lo hizo renacer"en el idioma Yoruba luego de su iniciación como Babalawosacerdote de Ifa Orunmila la deidad Yoruba de la creación .Dedicará la mayor parte de su obra a las religiones del Golfo de Guinea principalmente Fon y Yoruba y a las religiones afrobrasileñas principalmente Candomblé .Dejó la escuela a los 17 años. A los 30 años tras perder a su familia Pierre Verger inició su carrera como fotógrafo.Su especialidad fue la fotografÃa en blanco y negro las fotografÃas fueron tomadas con una cámara Rolleiflex actualmente en exhibición en el museo de la Fundación Pierre Verger pt en Salvador de BahÃa Brasil.Durante casi quince años viajó por los cuatro continentes y se interesó por muchas civilizaciones</p><p><strong>Lydia Cabrera </strong>La Habana Cuba 20 de mayo de 1899-Miami Florida Estados Unidos 19 de septiembre de 1991 fue una >etnóloga investigadora y narradora cubana. Sus estudios sobre la presencia y huellas de la cultura africana en la isla de Cuba en sus aspectos lingüÃsticos y antropológicos son de ineludible consulta</p><p>Fue asesora de la Junta del Instituto Nacional de Cultura bajo la dictadura de Batista. Trabajos suyos fueron publicados en las revistas francesas <em>Cahiers du Sud</em> <em>Revue de Paris</em> y <em>Les Nouvelles Litteraires</em> y en las cubanas <em>Revista OrÃgenes</em> 1945-1954 <em>Revista Bimestre Cubana</em> 1947 <em>Lyceum</em> 1949 <em>Lunes de Revolución</em> <em>Bohemia</em>.</p><p>Su libro <em>Por qué. cuentos negros de Cuba</em> fue también traducido al francés por Francis de Miomandre ParÃs Gallimard 1954. En <em>El Monte</em> 1954 se dedica por completo a estudiar los orÃgenes de la SanterÃa nacida de la mezcla de las deidades de Yoruba con los santos católicos. <em>Anago:Vocabulario Lucumi</em> es un estudio del lenguaje Lucumi y su adaptación al español.En 1955 publicó su recopilación de <em>Refranes de negros viejos</em> La Habana Eds. CR 1955. Al triunfo de la Revolución se marchó del paÃs​</p><p>En sus primeros libros etnológicos publicados entre 1954 y 1958 comenzando con <em>El Monte</em>; la autora recoge los más importantes fundamentos antropológicos religiosos y culturales del legado afrocubano. Para ello tiene que ganarse la confianza de sus informantes los cuales guardan celosamente el secreto de sus rituales mitos y costumbres. Por otra parte tuvo que desarrollar una profunda investigación de campo que la llevó a moverse por numerosos pueblos y ciudades sobre todo de La Habana Trinidad Las Villas y Matanzas. Para ella lo importante consistÃa en desentrañar "la huella profunda y viva que dejaron en esta isla los conceptos mágicos y religiosos las creencias y prácticas de los negros importados de Ãfrica durante varios siglos de trata ininterrumpida".</p> La casa belga,habana,presses de e aulard,paris france hardcover
1909H5388New York: The Neale Publishing Company 1909. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition 1909 bound in plain gray-blue cloth no lettering on spine hand-ruled black lines on covers -- possibly a publisher's trial binding as this seems utterly original to the book and not a rebind. Otherwise very good. 369 pp. A romance concerning the love affair between Gypta Levering of a large NY estate and Barron Baxter a dashing and chivalrous gentleman from South Carolina. RARE no copies currently for sale online and only 11 located by OCLC the vast majority in SC & NC libraries plus GA KY and the Library of Congress. The author 1865-1917 was a native of Columbia SC and part of a large family that included the greatest Southern chess player of his time. The Neale Publishing Company hardcover
195393726Lausanne: Editions Clairefontaine 1953. First ed. Hardcover. Very good with slight external wear. See photos. Octavo in blue paper-backed illus boards; approx 30p unpaged profusely illus in color. Two-page musical score incuded. Beautifully illustrated! Editions Clairefontaine hardcover
1998BN77847Sprengel Museum 1998. 1998. Kurt Schwitters Werke und Dokumente. Verzeichnis der Bestände im Sprengel Museum Hannover deutsch/englisch <br/><br/> Sprengel Museum unknown