Billops Camille (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Hardcover in slip case. Very gentle bend on bottom of page 77/78 without obstucting text or imagery but otherwise very sharp copy with bright, clean, unmarked pages with color pictures throughout. Binding is solid. Slip case has very light wear along edges but otherwise in solid,…

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of covers and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to covers and spine strip. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. No dust jacket included with this book. Se…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Exhibition catalog. Foreword by Kellie Jones. Square octavo. [36]pp. Stapled wrappers. Hint of spine sunning and corners a touch bumped, near fine. A catalog for a showing of work by African-American sculptures - curated by artist Howard McCalebb - held at the Kenkeleba House, which was founded i…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, the issue in oversized illustrated wrappers. Richly illustrated throughout. A clean tight copy with no markings, some edgewear and light creasing to covers. Some bottom margin edges with creasing or short closed tears, a few with neat tape repair. Profusely Illustrate…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Illlustrated wraps are mostly clean, with sepia text and photo illustration. Wraps show some edgewear, a scratch to the back cover. Corners are softened. See photos. Spine has sepia text and is bright with bumped ends. Binding is secure. End papers show little sign of age or wear. I…

First Edition. First edition and first printing. Softcover. 85 pages. A terrific book that looks at this important African American photographer. Features a foreword by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. Includes the text of a long conversation between Van Der Zee and Camille Billops along with poems by Owen Dodson. A powerful co…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Paperback Edition. Large paperback, some very mild edge-tanning and a moderate curl to the corners of the front cover, no other remarkable flaws, the binding is clean, bright and tight and the contents are fine, includes photographs, poems and text, "reveal (s) the history of a time in Harle…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Good first ediiton softcover. Some age toning to covers. Back cover is lightly curled at edge. Top corner is lightly bent at text block. Light edge and spinewear. Gently used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. An exciting and well preserved historical document. Pasadena's finest independent n…

First edition in paperback, issued simultaneously with the hardcover edition. Photographs by James Van Der Zee. 4to. Original printed card wrappers. New York, Morgan & Morgan. Book of funerary photographs by the renowned photographer James Van Der Zee who is best-known for documenting the ?Harlem Renaissance? with his stylised p…

Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Morgan & Morgan, [1978]. 85 pp. B./w. / sepia photographs by James Van Der Zee. Orig. softcover. 8vo. - A neat copy. Near fine.Includes an introduction by Toni Morrison. - -James Van Der Zee (June 29, 1886 - May 15, 1983) was an African-American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. H…

Limited Edition. First edition, first printing. Number 42 of 60 copies, signed by James Van der Zee, Owen Dodson and Camille Billops on the front pastedown dated 11/12/78. [viii], 85 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear at spine ends and corners, small ink stain at right edge of front…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, decorated, stapled wrappers, by Billops with a Afro-centric drawing, circa 30pp., about as obscure a little mimeo mag as can not be found, no title page, no index, no dates of publication etc.cover by Billops is dated a barely decipherable '72, Hatch is the main poet, B(ruce) Wright contrib…