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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
192219095Calais Imprimerie Des Orphelins 1922 2 volumes In-8 715 pp , planches et plans intercalés,
1999Q-0304351342UNKNO 1999. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! UNKNO paperback
1996159751Paris and New York: Revue Noire and D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers Inc 1996. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 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 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 books
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
195921397Tours GiBERT-Clarey 1959 In Quarto Exemplaire avec envoi et un dessin original représentant le Chateau de Vou en Lochois à Pleine page, Exemplaire imprimé spécialement , 138 pp préface de Maurice Sieklucki
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
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 books
193717636London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd. 1937. Near fine in a solid very good jacket with a few small nicks and tears but bright and complete. First Edition. Small quarto. Foreword by Robert Burnett. 48 black and white plates of Polynesian people and rituals. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. unknown books
1954RO20272415PAUL HARTMANN EDITEUR. 1954. In-4. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos frotté, Quelques rousseurs. 192 PAGES - Nombreuses photos noir/blanc + quelques unes en couleur, dans et hors texte + 1 carte en noir/blanc en frontispice - dos plié - légendes des photos en francais et en anglais - couverture à 3 rabats - 5 photos disponibles. . . . Classification Dewey : 960-Histoire générale de l'Afrique
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
1989BN140948Editorial Gredos 1989. 1989. Hardcover. Elegías <br/><br/>Elegías Antonio Ramírez de Verger ed. Propercio = Sextus Aurelius Propertius Editorial Gredos hardcover
1968039035United States: AMS Press Inc 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/NO Dustwrapper. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. And the Catalogue of His Library of Manuscripts. The private journals and spirit diaries compiled from the original manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford and Trinity College Library Cambridge. Facsimile of 1842 edition. Edited and a short Preface by James Orchard Halliwell. First AMS Edition. Series No I 19. AMS Press Inc. New York USA 1968. viii 102 36pp hb No Dust-wrapper gilt blue cloth front cover marked excessive glue marks from binding otherwise near fine <br/> <br/> AMS Press Inc hardcover
1986126161986. Saint-Brieuc Du n°28 (février 1986) au n°68 février 1994) ; il manque les n°s 37 47 51 ; on joint le numéro hors-série consacré à Joseph Bouglione et le n°13 de La Voix du Cirque (mars 1988) soient 40 n°s - Broché 15 cm x 21 cm de 28 à 40 pages photos et ills noir & blanc - Comité de rédaction : Jean Le Verger Bernard Bodiguel Jean-Louis Lutz - Une tache de café sur la couv. du n°43 sinon très bon état - Excellente revue à petit tirage
1998x-1850758840Sheffield Academic Pr 1998. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 293 pages. 9.25x6.75x0.25 inches. Sheffield Academic Pr paperback