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Libri antichi e moderni

Radin, Paul

AFRICAN FOLKTALES & SCULPTURE

Bollingen Foundation Inc, 1953

110,00 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, Stati Uniti d'America)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1953
Luogo di stampa
New York
Autore
Radin, Paul
Editori
Bollingen Foundation Inc

Descrizione

First Edition, Second Printing. Lavishly illustrated with 165 fine black and white plates. Folio, publisher’s original textured beige cloth, lettered in gilt on the black spine, and also with a small pictorial decoration on the upper cover corner in brown and gilt. In the original pictorial dustjacket. xxi, 335; 165 plates; 341-355 pp. A fine copy, the dustjacket with some very minor edge wear from shelving.

Edizione: an impressive collection. "this volume offers a representative collection of native african myths and folk tales accompanied by selected examples of the plastic art stemming from the same culture. dr. radin has drawn upon the tribes of west africa, the bantu-speaking tribes of central, east, and south africa, the nile headwaters, and the bushmen and hottentots of the south and southwest. mr. sweeney has chosen over 160 photographs of the sculpture of native africa, most from nigeria."
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