Masks of Black Africa
by Segy, Ladislas
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 048623181X
- ISBN 13
- 9780486231815
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Dover Publications, 1976. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good+. A Dover original, this work assembles 246 photos of African masks from the collection of dealer & author Ladislas Segy, a renowned scholar on such masks. In her Introduction, she discusses the psychology behind the masks, along with the dances in which they are form, carving style & the social role of mask carvers, & much more. Each mask shown is identified by tribe, place or origin, & ritual use. A First Edition, First Printing, from 1976, this softcover quarto (8.25" x 11") has colorfully decorated wrappers, in 247 pages, lavishly illustrated in both full-color & black-and-white, Bibliography. Condition is VG+: very slight edgewear, foxing to endpapers & outside page edges, & slight discolored spot to lower outside page edges are only flaws. Else, completely clean & bright, binding strong & straight, pages white. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021072
- Title
- Masks of Black Africa
- Author
- Segy, Ladislas
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 048623181X
- ISBN 13
- 9780486231815
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- AFRICAN AFRICA BLACK NATIVE TRIBE TRIBAL CEREMONIES DANCE DANCING RITUAL MASK COSTUME ANTHROPOLOGY SOCIOLOGY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art-Artists; Cultural Studies/Popular & Folk Culture/Countercultures; Race/Ethnic Studies-Literature / African/Black Americans;
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