La Sculpture au Congo Belge
by Gaffé, René
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- g
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Bruxelles: Editions du Cercle d'Art, 1945. Limited First edition. Softcover. g. 1/1500. Quarto. 65, [7]pp (text), [32] leaves (photographic plates). Original illustrated wrappers. Remarkable monograph on Negro sculpture in Belgian Congo, profusely illustrated with 32 b/w photographic reproductions of African tribal sculptures on wood and ivory. Each photographic plate faces a text page giving the full description of the artwork. One of 1500 copies, of which this is No.1187. Laid in in a glassine envelope, a signed typed letter from Albert O. Louer, Director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, announcing the upcoming exhibition of African art, along with a 3-page press release and an original b/w photograph of an African mask. Front cover partly stained. Sunning along edges of wrappers. Text pages age-toned along margin. Wrappers in overall good-, interior in good+ condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34807
- Title
- La Sculpture au Congo Belge
- Author
- Gaffé, René
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited First edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Editions du Cercle d'Art
- Place of Publication
- Bruxelles
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- African sculptures, African tribal art, First edition, Limited, Illustrated, Reference
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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Santa Monica, California
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- Plate
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- Edges
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- Quarto
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- G
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- First Edition
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- Good+
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...