Phelps, Steven. Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas. The James Hooper Collection. Hutchinson in association with Christie’s. 1976.

Large 4to. Blue cloth hardcover in dust jacket. 487pp. 8 colour plates, 250 b/w plates. Pages and dust jacket exceptionally bright and clean (see further below).
Written by James Hooper’s grandson Steven, this catalogue presents ‘the least known and least published of the great English ethnographical collections made this century (Oldman, Beasley, Fuller and Hooper), and the last to remain in private hands’ (dj). 
Approximately 1800 items from Polynesia, Melanesia, North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa are illustrated and accompanied by a comprehensive bibliography. 
One of three unread, near-mint copies being offered for individual sale that have remained in single, stiff-card protective boxes presumably since acquisition in 1976. 
A scarce and highly collectible catalogue in unparalleled condition.