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Brooklyn Museum Press, 1923T. paperback. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library paperback book with library stickers, labels and stamps on cover and inside. Cover is torn at top of spine. Spine is separating. Pages are clean, free of markings, notes or stains. Ships from Friends bookstore to benefit Beaverton (Oregon) library.

Brooklyn Museum Department of Ethnology. Very Good. 1923. Softcover. Pictorial stiff wraps. Exhibition catalog, illustrated with 8 plates. Clear tape reinforces entire spine, and a small sticker is taped to crown. Toning/rubbing to covers, shallow loss to corner of rear cover, and minor scrape to rear cover. Rear endpage corner has a small clear tape repair. Else unmarked. Very mild thumbing. Catalog for the first major exhibition of African Art in America. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 42 pages .

Brooklyn, N. Y.: Brooklyn Museum Department of Ethnology, 1923. Softcover. Good (wraps tanned; scuffed & smudged. front wrap has large, pencil name/notation to upper edge w/ swirl & other light pencil marks. corners rubbed w/ creasing. spine darkened; has handwritten black pen title. spine creased; top rubbed; slight flapped tear to lower edge, tail has small amount of erosion. shelf-wear/scuffing to lower textblock edge). cream wraps w/ green & yellow illustration w/ black printing. approx 42 unpaginated pgs w/ 8 bw plates. Spine glue beginning to crack; wraps begining to separate with front having a fairly deep (approximately 6inch) crack. Wraps are fragile. Back of title page has pencil handwritting/notation that appears to accompany a laid-in postcard illustrated with a Batetela wood carving. Pages remain fairly bright. Remains tightly bound. A scarce catalogue of this important exhibition.

Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1923. First Edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. In fine condition.. Illustrated with 8 photographic plates.. Illustrated with 8 photographic plates. First Edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. 42 p., and 8 plates. A rare copy of this important catalog for the iconic and first major exhibition of African art in America. In 1903, Stewart Culin (1858-1929) became the founding curator of the Department of Ethnology at the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, now the Brooklyn Museum. He was among the first museum curators to display ethnological collections as art objects, not as ethnographic specimens, and among the first to recognize museum installation as an art form in its own right. He made his intentions clear in the catalog's introductory essay: "The entire collection, whatever may have been its original uses, is shown under the classification of art; as representing a creative impulse, and not for the purpose of illustrating the… Read More