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Pierre Verger: Le Messager/the Go-Between : Photographies, 1932-1962 (English and French Edition)

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Verger, Pierre Ilustrador. 1st Edition. A bilingual edition in French and English. First printing of the first trade edition, July 1996. Photogravure and duotone engraving done in Paris, else printed in Italy. 12.75 x 9.75 inches. Bound in fully-illustrated B&W matte paper hardboards. Unbumped spine head and tail, and with sharp corners. Text block firmly bound in. 240 numbered pages, with numerous crisp duotone plates, including many full-page and a few double-page plates, all on coated stock. An exceptionally clean interior. No demerits noticed. With an illustrated, heavy-duty dust jacket. This copy almost certainly unread. A Fine copy in a Fine DJ. Scarce in any condition. 4 lbs. 10 oz. "Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, alias Fatumbi or Fátúmbí [1902-1996] was a photographer, self-taught ethnographer, and babalawo (Yoruba priest of Ifà) who devoted most of his life to the study of the African diaspora . the slave trade, the African-based religions of the new world, and the resulting cultural and economical flows from and to Africa.". Nº de ref. del artículo: 008110

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