TRANSFIGURATIONS: North Pacific Coast Art
Seattle: Marquand Books Inc, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Item #SHEL2042
ISBN: 9780977802807
First and only printing. I have seen and collected a lot of books on Northwest Coastal Indigeneous art over the years and this is the most sumptuous book I have ever seen on the subject. Limited to 500 copies signed by Brown, the writer of the text, and also by George Terasaki, the collector who also took the atmospherically beautiful photographs. Huge oblong 4to black cloth, 12 1/4" x 14 3/4". Decorated endpapers. Contents: Foreword by Edmund Carpenter, Introduction, The Collection-Plates and Commentary (93 plates), Selected Bibliography, Appendix of Historical Dating by Carbon-14 Method. Fine in fine dust jacket. A treasure to be treasured for a lifetime! Fine in fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00