Full Title: African Art In American Collections--L'art Africain Dans Les Collections Américaines
Condition Continued: There is a thin bit of toning just below the top corner of the front inside cover. All of the illustrations are in excellent condition. There are ten consecutive pages with a light bit of crinkling off part of their top edges. Something lightly pressed down there. There are no placeholder creases. There is a small crinkle just above the bottom corners of many of the pages, the result of an apparent bump to the bottom corner of the rear cover, although the bump is not visible on the rear cover there is a little crease at the bottom corner of the rear inside cover. There are also two small, thin scratches on the white margin of the copyright page. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere.
You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. I have always had it in a fitted protective cover. The jacket is mostly clean. There is a spot off the bottom edge of the front, a slight bit of toning off the outer edge of the front. There is a thin tear off the top edge of the front. You can see the loss off the top edge of the spine and the smaller one off the bottom edge of the spine. The flaps are in very nice shape, very clean, no tears. There is a tiny tucking-in clip at each of the four corners. The price is present and unaffected. I'm going to remove the fitted protective cover so the photos won't be distorted by glare. I will place a new protective cover over the jacket after the photos are taken.
Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1966. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Written by In English and French. Limited Edition of 7000. First Edition (NAP, Frederick A. Praeger= NAP) with loose Errata sheet (in excellent condition). 347 black and white illustrations. 'This book was composed by Hallmark Typographers, New York; the type used was Garamond. An edition of 7,000 was printed in February, 1966, by Robert Teller Sons & Dorner, New York, using paper furnished by the Mead Corporation. The books were bound in Columbia Mills Spindrift cloth by Montauk Book Mfg. Co., Harrison, N.J.'
From the dust jacket: 'During the past half-century, interest in tribal sculpture of Africa has grown to such an extent in the United States that today there are more than 1,000 collections of African art in America. Approximately 200 of these collections-- in museums and in private hands-- can be considered of major importance. Ranging from Ashanti fertility dolls to Bambera dance headpieces, from Bachokwe staff heads to Bakuba boxes-- from Senegal to the Congo regions, from Mali to Sierra Leone-- the 347 works reproduced in this book represent the most complete photographic survey yet published of African art in America. Warren Robbins is the founder and director of the new Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C.'