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Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti.
by DEREN, Maya
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Book Collectors Society, by arrangement with Thames & Hudson, no date (ca. 1953). Limited to 250 copies, this unnumbered & out of series. 8vo, x & 350 pp, indexed, Illustrated by numerous photogravure plates & line drawings. Publisher's full pebbled brown morocco lettered in gilt on spine, with pink satin marker sewn in.
Lightly rubbed, brief wear at corners, gift inscription at title page, front hinge cracking, otherwise very good.
Maya Deren, born Eleanora Derenkowskaia, is highly regarded as the mother of avant-garde film making She visited Haiti between 1947 and 1954 funded by a Guggenheim fellowship where she wrote Divine Horsemen and filmed what would become a posthumously released documentary of the same name.
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 728
- Title
- Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti.
- Author
- DEREN, Maya
- Format/Binding
- Full morocco
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Book Collectors Society, by arrangement with Thames & Hudson
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- no date (ca. 1953.)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Haiti, Maya Deren, Avant-garde Film, Caribbean
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film, Movies; Culture, Customs, Folklore; Caribbean, Cuba;
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About the Seller
Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
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