New York: Walker and Company, 1974. First Edition. First printing Near fine in decorated white cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and with minor soiling to the lower edge of the boards. An oblong octavo of 8 1/2 by 11 inches. In a near fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap with a 1/4 inch closed tear to the lower edge of the rear panel. Signed by the author on the first free end paper with an inscription "to the Steve Kaptain Library". This edition preceded the more widely seen version by Funk and Wagnal. 64 pages of text. 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."

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB31248
Title: Recollections in Black and White
Author: Sloane, Eric
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Walker and Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1974

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