Illus andre durenceau (2 Ergebnisse)
Weitere BilderVerlag: International Collectors Library, Garden City, NY 1944
- Hardcover
Anbieter: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, USACragsmoor Books
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EUR 6,64
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In den WarenkorbGreen leatherette w. gold tooling to cover and backstr., w. silk bookmark. Top edge gilt. Front hinge sl. separated, remains very solid. Color plates. Illus. 429pp. Pretty edition. Andre Durenceau (illustrator).
Weitere BilderVerlag: Farrar & Rinehart (1930), New York 1930
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, USALorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
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EUR 73,03
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In den Warenkorbdj. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publisher's brown cloth; dustjacket; xiv,318pp; color frontispiece and seven unnumbered leaves of b/w plates after André Durenceau, who also designed the endpapers and dustwrapper. A sound, generally clean copy; text over-opened at p.70, a few faint spots of foxing; Very Good. In the or…iginal dustwrapper, unclipped but tattered with losses along upper margin and spine ends, closed tears and age-toning; just Good. With the engraved bookplate of Portland, Oregon collector Frederick W. Skiff (d.1947). A colorful but cringingly condescending account by an Anglo-American trader who spent the years 1882-1896 in what was then French Equatorial Africa, today called the Republic of the Congo. Includes chapters on cannibalism, native African slaveholders, and sexual customs, about which the author warns he ".shall speak with the utmost frankness.for the reason that they are the most powerful and dominating factor" in the lives of the natives of Equatorial Africa. With illustrations in dramatic Art Deco style by Franco-American illustrator and muralist André Durenceau.
