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112pp, Fine/fine. Grey cloth with black and red lettering on cover, black lettering on spine, grey endpapers, glossy thick stock, many photographs. Printed in Germany. Gorgeous, heartbreaking images of a Harlem family. Includes a photo essay published in Life magazine in March 1968. Rare, out-of-print. Parks was a film director best known for "Shaft" and "Shaft's Big Score" and was a well-known photographer. Domestic shipping only.

New York: Little, Brown & Co (New York Graphic Society). first printing. Fine/fine. 75pp, grey cloth with gilt stamped lettering on cover and spine, 140 color, 22 duotone photographs on glossy stock, color photo on dj cover, slightly crimped corner on upper right of back cover and repaired 1/2"  tear on  upper right of back dj, otherwise as new in unclipped dj with mylar cover, includes postcard from 1992 photo exhibit in Santa Fe, with photo of Eliot and wife</p>

315pp, blue cloth cover with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Foxing on front and back endpapers. First edition first printing . Author Price describes his high end wandering through Italy, France, Germany and England during the twenties. Signed/Inscribed by author to Edgar Sherrill, book publisher. Included is a hand written note from actress Julia Arthur (1868-1950), who married a Boston millionaire Benjamin Pierce Cheney, Jr. and retired to NYC. Arthur was a famous and well-regarded actress. The note is to Sherrill: 20 East 76th St. Apart. 11-H New York Dear Mr. Sherrill: The little books "Mater Gloriosa" came in good condition and I thank you. It is a wonderfully beautiful appreciation of a mother and I shall take great pleasure in sending to some young people I know who are still capable of the more spiritual love. With thanks and best wishes I am, Very sincerely yours Julia Arthur Cheney Sept 23rd 1928. Sherrill was half of McGrath-Sherrill Press. A tremendous association piece that merges… Read More