Author: Frank, Barbara E.

MANDE POTTERS & LEATHERWORKERS: ART AND HERITAGE IN WEST AFRICA.

By: Frank, Barbara E.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press : 1998

Edition: First Printing.

Seller ID: 24218

ISBN-13: 9781560987949

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

192 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs and drawings. "Among the Mande-speaking groups dispersed throughout much of West Africa, certain artists - including potters and leatherworkers - form a spiritually powerful social class in which gender determines craft specialization. Ceramic water jars and cooking pots are made only by the wives and female relatives of blacksmiths. Leather objects such as knife sheaths, amulet cases, and, more recently, western-style shoes and bags are produced by male leatherworkers. While these objects display features common t...
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PHOENIX FEATHERS: A COLLECTION OF MYTHICAL MONSTERS.

By: Silverberg, Barbara, editor. Frank R. Stockton, Frederick Engelhardt, Edward Topsell, John Wyndham, Kenneth Grahame, Theodore Sturgeon, Larry Niven, E. Nesbit, Lewis Varthema, Herb Lehrman, Marco Polo, Herodotus, Ctesias, Alf Laylah Wa Laylah, et al.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton : 1973

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27998

ISBN-13: 9780525369851

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

206 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H). B&w reproductions of old prints. Contents: Introduction; The Griffin (The Arimaspi and the Griffins / Griffins in the Land of Bachary / The Giffin and the Minor Canon); The Kraken (From Polypus on the Coasts of Norway / The Largest Sea-Monster in the World / The Kraken); The Dragon (The Greatest Among Serpents / Chinese Puzzle / The Reluctant Dragon); The Unicorn (From Certain Wild Asses / On the Nature of Unicorns / Unicorns in Mecca / The Ancient Last / The Silken-Swift); The Roc (The Enormous Bird of Madeigascar / The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman / Bir...
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CORPSE IN HANDCUFFS.

By: Smith, Frank A. Cover art by Barbara Walton.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, (1969), Ist Canadian edition.

Seller ID: 13881

176 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Why would anyone throw away 100,000 pounds in diamonds? Who were the mysterious couple in the black Fiat? Why did a man end his days as a flaming, human torch? When Catherine Cherwick, daughter of an American diplomat, is spirited away from an exclusive private school on the eve of important East-West trade talks, these are just some of the questions facing Superintendent Pepper of the Special Branch. The superintendent follows a tortuous pa th, leading not only through the underworld of London, but deeper, much deeper into that twilight wor...
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Author: Frank, Barbara E.

MANDE POTTERS & LEATHERWORKERS: ART AND HERITAGE IN WEST AFRICA.

PHOENIX FEATHERS: A COLLECTION OF MYTHICAL MONSTERS.

CORPSE IN HANDCUFFS.