African / Modern & Contemporary Art from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Cologne: Taschen, 1995. Cloth, 1 volume (unpaged), chiefly colour illustrations; 31 cm. Text in French, English and German. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine lightly bumped at the crown. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. A photographic portrait of African women. Richly illustrated with colour plates. . 1st.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Universe Publishing, 2001. 1 volume (unpaged), colour illustrations; 33 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Karim Rashid is the best-known and most prolific designer practicing in America today. On the brink of household-name celebrity, he is already a superstar among design aficionados. Rashid… Saber más sobre este artículo

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. 259 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Front cover partly sunned. "White on Black is a compelling visual history of the development of European and American stereotypes of black people over the last two hundred years. Jan Nederveen Pieterse shows the pervasiveness of prejudice against blacks throughout the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. xvi, 187 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. October files, 21. Tight, clean copy. "Since the 1970s, the South African artist William Kentridge has charted the turbulent terrain of his homeland in both personal and political terms. With erudition, absurdist humor, and an underlying hope in humankind, Kentridge's artwork has examined apartheid, humanitarian atrocities, aging, and the… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: PublicAffairs, 2005. vi, 752 pages, [24] pages of plates, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Bath: Parragon Publishing, 2002. Pictorial boards, 256 pages, colour illustrations; 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/top edge. Dust jacket slightly sunned at extremities on the front cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Art Deco emerged as an antidote to an era of economic slumps and depressions, social… Saber más sobre este artículo

Camserney, Perthshire: Pioneer Associates, 2001. Cloth, viii, 120 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, no dedication. Dust spotting/top edge. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. Profusely illustrated.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. Cloth, 357 pages illustrations, maps, portraits 22 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with a sticker shadow/front cover, protected in a mylar cover.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Random House, 1991. xxv, 738 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket, with a slightly faded spine, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2010. 241 pages; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First North American Edition. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "Like all of V. S. Naipaul's 'travel' books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Vendome Press; Rizzoli International Publications, 1994. Cloth, 1 volume (unpaged), colour illustrations, colour map; 38 cm. Originally published: Le Kenya vu du ciel. Editions de La Martiniere, 1993 Firm binding, clean inside copy. First American Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Seatlle: University of Washington Press, 2017. x, 365 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. A good reading copy, marked on half a dozen pages. "Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media - from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Ecco Press, 2006. xxv, 322 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers - and fortune hunters - than the lost city… Saber más sobre este artículo

Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1997. 109 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, January 25 to March 19, 1997. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Boston, Toronto, London: Little, Brown and Company; A Bulfinch Press Book, 1993. Half-cloth, 134 pages, illustrations; 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Since apartheid began in South Africa, women have been at the forefront… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Macmillan Company, 1965. Cloth, 125 pages, illustrations (some colour), plans; 24 x 26 cm. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Photographs by Andre Martin. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. Dust jacket, chipped/back cover, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated with photos of the Kairwan. Mosque… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Abrams; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2012. Pictorial boards, 204 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Wildlife photography, East Africa.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oblong. Collectible.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. Cloth, 287 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour map; 25 cm. With a new introduction by the author. Illustrated by Francesca Pelizzoli. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Tail edge bumped/front board. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Pelizzoli, Francesca. 8vo.

Ojai, CA: Leslie Clark, 2009. 1 volume (unpaged), colour illustrations; 21 x 25 cm. Previous owner's signature/inside front cover, otherwise unmarked. Paintings of Africa by an American artist with a second home in Niger.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

Nice: Musees de la Ville de Nice, 1993. 59 pages, colour illustrations, portraits; 30 cm. Text in French/Texte en francais. Published in conjunction with exhibitions of the works of Mohamed Tabal, at the Galerie du Chateau; Rachid Amarhouch, at the Nouvelle Galerie Renoir; and Maimoune Ali, Abdelmalik Berhiss, and Abdelkader Bentajar, at the Musee International d'art Naif Anatole Jakovsky, 18… Saber más sobre este artículo