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Indian Art of the Americas
by Dockstader, Frederick
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation, 1973. First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Quarto in Very Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Photography by Carmelo Guadagno. 500 illustrations, b/w and some in full color. Orange cloth binding with Indian art illustrations on front, gold titles on spine, green titles on front. Very clean, slight rubbing of corners and spine edges, tight & solid sewn binding, square with sharp corners. Stirrup-spout vessel on Title Page. Faint smudges on fore edge of page block. Internals in Fine Condition-clean and unmarked, no creases. All illustrations fully described. The scope of the exhibition portrayed in this volume is the Indian of the North, Central and South American continents, from the time of the earliest surviving material culture to the expressions of contemporary Indian artists working in various media. It is an effort to expose the viewer to the work of several Indian tribes throughout America, over a period of approximately 4,000 years. 304 pages. 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation, New York, 1973.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028238
- Title
- Indian Art of the Americas
- Author
- Dockstader, Frederick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 4to - over 9?" - 12" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ART; INDIAN NORTH AMERICA, MEXICO, CENTRAL CARIBBEAN ISLANDS, SOUTH THE COLONIAL PERIOD,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Native Americans;
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