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15 Books & Publications on African Art

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11 Books on African Art of the Congo: 8 are quality hardbacks; 3 are soft covers. Excellent condition.

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "African Miniatures: The Goldweights of the Ashanti" by Margaret Webster Plass, "African Goldweights: Miniature Sculptures from Ghana 1400 - 1900" by Tom Phillips, "Designs and Patterns fro

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "African Primitives: Function & Form in African Masks and Figures" by G.W. Sannes, "Nigerian Pottery: A Catalogue compiled by Sylvia Leith-Ross", "Kunst aus dem Alten Afrika" by Maria Kecsk

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "African Majesty From Grasslands and Forest" by William Fagg, "Visions of Africa: Bamana" by Jean-Paul Colleyn, "Art of the Dogon: Selections from the Lester Wunderman Collection", etc. Som

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Box Lot of Books on African Art.: African. Box Lot of Books on African Art. Complete volume of African Arts from 1967, 1981, 1985, 1999 and other assorted books. All in great condition. Est. $1,000-3,000. Buyer is responsible for ship

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12 Books on African Art: 6 are quality hardbacks; 6 are soft covers. Excellent condition.

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "The Art of Africa: Masks and Figures from Eastern and Southern Africa" by Ladislav Holy, "African Art & Leadership" edited by Douglas Fraser and Herbert M. Cole, "African Dolls Afrikanisch

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "Ituri: The Distribution of Polychrome Masks in Northeast Zaire" by Marc L. Felix, "Isn't S/He A Doll?: Play and Ritual in African Sculpture" by Elisabeth L. Cameron, "Bamana: The Art of Ex

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "Arms and Armor in Africa" by Helmut Nickel, "Visions from the Forests: The Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone", "Senufo Unbound: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa" by Susan Elizabet

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "Art of Equatorial Guinea: The Fang Tribes" by Louis Perrois and Marta Sierra Delage, "Surfaces: Color, Substances, and Ritual Applications on African Sculpture", "African Sculpture" by War

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "The Rock Paintings of Tassili" by Jean-Dominique Lajoux, "African Kings" by Daniel Laine, "Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures" by Alisa LaGamma, etc. Some may be in Engl

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "White Gold, Black Hands: Ivory Sculpture in Congo Vol. 1", edited by Marc Leo Felix, "Collecting African Art" by Werner Gillon, "Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens" by Wendy A. G

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "Column to volume: Formal innovation in Chamba statuary" by Richard Fardon and Christine Stelzig, "Les Masques" by Andreas Lommel, "Ornament and Sculpture in Primitive Society" etc. Some ma

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "The Art of Collecting African Art", "Close Up: Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Art" by Jerry Thompson & Susan Vogel, "Visions of Africa: The Jerome L. Joss Collection of African Art a

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "African Masks" by Robert Bleakley, "Yoruba: Sculpture of West Africa" by William Fagg & John Pemberton, "Africa and the Renaissance: Art in Ivory" by Ezio Bassani & William Fagg, etc. Some

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13 Pcs. Books / Booklets, African Art etc.: To include "Ceremonial Art of West Africa from the Victor DuBois Collection", "Introduction to African Arts of Kenya, Zaire, and Nigeria" by Fred J. Parrott, "Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection: Exh

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