Recollections in Black and White (Portfolio Edition)

New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1978. First Edition by Funk & Wagnalls. Fine in white paper covered boards with black text stamping on the spine and a blind embossed signature on the front board. The front end paper is marked with a prior owner's hand stamp. In a very good+dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap with a short 1/4" closed tear at the upper edge of the rear panel and light soiling to the spine end of the front panel. An enlarged and expanded edition from the earlier edition which was published in 1974. 95 pages of text and line drawings which deal mainly with early American architectural elements. The intent of this book is to memorialize "the oldest and most profound medium of human communication - black lines on a white paper background." In anticipation of doing a book like this, for many years Sloane set aside many of his pen and ink drawings which together in this format provide an autobiographic reverie of this artist/author's life. A great many of the illustrations which appear in this 64 page book are architectural in nature showing barns, sheds, stone fences, covered bridges, toll houses, awning details, all of which serve to graphically explain the use of "shapes of shadow and shapes of light."