The Harlem Book of the Dead

by VAN DER ZEE, James and Owen Dodson, Camille Billops

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1978. 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 collection of black and white images of funerals. A near fine copy in photo-illustrated wrappers with a small and faint stain to the base of the front cover. Still a lovely copy.

• Publisher: Morgan & Morgan
• Year: 1978
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: unknown

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