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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. Quarto. Orig. cloth with dust jacket. Very near fine copy in very good dust jacket, spine panel bit worn at top and rear foldover to inside flap rubbed along fold. Bilingual text throughout. Translated into French by Richard Walters. 347 illustrations. Large and heavy book. Foreign customers should anticipate significant additional shipping charges.

II ed.: 2005 (original title: African Art in American Collections, 1966). Testo in inglese/francese. Translated into French by/ Traduit en Français par Richard Walters. VIII grande / xvi+240/ cart./ sovraccoperta patinata con grafica in grigio/b/n/ rosso ed illustrata in b/n ai piatti e a colori al secondo risvolto (cover: Chief's Emblematic Ax with Effigy Handle/ Hache émblématique du chef, le manche à effigie. Wood, metal/ Bois et métal. 15 3/4 in./ 40 cm. Baluba (Luba), Congo (Léopoldville)/ Congo-Léopoldville. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts --- back cover: Nimba, Shoulder Mask/ masque d'épaules. Wood/ Bois. 48 in./ 122 cm. Baga, Guinea/ Guinée. Coll. Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Schlinder, New York - Head for Reliquary/ Tête pour un reliquaire. Wood, patina, metal/ Bois patiné et métal. 18 1/4 in./ 46,3 cm. Fang, Gabon. Museum of Primitive Art, New York - Kpélié, Ancestor Face Mask/ masque d'ancêtre. Wood/ Bois. 15 in./ 38,1 cm. Senufo/ Sénoufo, Ivory Coast/ Côte d'Ivoire. Coll. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Newman, New York --- 2nd flap: cover of book "African Art in American Collections")/ sovraccoperta in nylon trasparente. Illustrazioni in b/n, f.t. Stato buono-ottimo. Sguardie in cartoncino liscio nero. Contents/ Table: Preface to the Second Edition; Warren M. Robbins (Washington, D.C.) - Preface/ Préface; W.M.R. (Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., October/ Octobre 1965) - Index to countries and tribal styles represented/ Table des pays et tribus dont les styles sont représentés - Map/ Carte - Traditional African sculpture in the modern world/ La sculpture africaine traditionnelle dans le monde moderne - African art and modern western art/ L'art africain et l'art occidental moderne- African art in America/ L'art africain en Amérique - Selected bibliography/ Bibliographie sommaire - Plates/ Planches (Angola - Cameroon/ Cameroun - Chad - Central African Republic/ République Centrafricaine - Congo (Brazzaville)/ Congo-Brazzaville - Dahomey - Democratic Republic of Congo/ Congo-Léopoldville - Gabon - Ghana - Guinea/ Guinée - Guinea Coast/ Côte de Guinée - Ivory Coast/ Côte d'Ivoire - Liberia/ Libéria - Malagasy Republic (Madagascar)/ République malgache (Madagascar) - Mali - Mozambique - Nigeria/ Nigéria - Portuguese Guinea/ Guinée Portugaise- Rhodesia/ Rhodésie - Río Muni (Spanish Guinea/ Rio Muni (Guinée Espagnole) - Rwanda/ Ruanda - Senegal/ Sénégal - Sierra Leone - Somalia/ Somalie - South Africa/ Afrique du Sud - Sudan/ Soudan - Tanzania/ Tanzanie - Togo - Uganda/ Ouganda - Upper Volta/ Haute Volta - Zambia/ Zambie) - Collections - Sources of illustrations/ Origines des illustrations.