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Traylor was a freed slave who, in 1939, at the age of 85, began to draw. Thirty years after his death his paintings were first exhibited. 192 pp. 152 illustrations, biographical and bibliographical references.
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Bill Traylor: His Life - His Art
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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0394587022
ISBN 13: 9780394587028
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Traylor, Bill (illustrator). First Edition. 192 pp. Oblong 4to. Slight wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Blue remainder mark at foot of text block, clean within. Seller Inventory # 30609
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Bill Traylor: His Art, His Life
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Knopf, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0394587022
ISBN 13: 9780394587028
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Color; 10 1/2 x 9 1/2"; 192 pages; Oblong shaped hard cover has brown spine with gold lettering. Laid in is article from newpaper, about the artist. No date on article. Slight rubbing to boards. DJ in mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight. Appears as if unused. Illustrated with 148 color pictures by Traylor. "He is a phenomenon. 'A striking example of idiosyncratic and isolate genius' (Kay Larson in New York magazine) , the earliest black folk artist to receive substantial recognition, and the only self-taught painter whose work is now regarded as important contemporary art both in this country and abroad. Bill Traylor was a freed slave who, in 1939, at age eighty-five, began to draw. (He had remained on the Alabama plantation from 1854 until 1939 to farm and to raise twenty-two children. ) First working in a show factory until disabled by rheumatism, and then homeless, in Montgomery, Traylor slept in the back of a funeral parlor, where the caskets were stacked, and made the sidewalk his studio, drawing on pieces of cardboard propped in his lap, using the stub of a pencil, poster paints, and a little straight-edge stick (he had no brushes). In three years, he created more that 1,500 silhouette-like drawings of plants, animals, people, and abstract forms. In 1979, thirty years after Traylor's death, his paintings were first exhibited and, in the decade since, his work has been featured in more than forty major exhibitions around the world.". Seller Inventory # 16081
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stated first edition. 192pp, color illus. Binding sturdy, hinges a little shaken; red cloth faded at edges. DJ yellowed with some scuffs. NOT ex-lib. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Seller Inventory # 280936
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Bill Traylor: His Art - His Life
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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0394587022
ISBN 13: 9780394587028
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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
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First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 192 pages. A monograph on Bill Traylor who only began drawing at the age of 85 after a lifetime spent as a farmer on an Alabama plantation where he lived initially as a slave and then until 1939 to farm. Features text by Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco. Includes 152 illustrations, a chronology, a list of previous exhibitions, and a bibliography. A clean very near fine copy in cloth boards in a very near fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 193017
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Bill Traylor: His Art, His Life
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hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Knopf, New York, 1991.FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. As new. Unread. First Edition, First Printing. Previous owner's artistic embossed stamp at bottom of title page, otherwise as new. Seller Inventory # 2405090005
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Bill Traylor: His Art, His Life
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ISBN 10: 0394587022
ISBN 13: 9780394587028
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Seller: Clio and Erato Books, Tarrytown, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Traylor, Bill (illustrator). First edition. "Bill Traylor was a freed slave who, in 1939, at age eighty-five, began to draw." 148 paintings in this book: "joyous figures dancing on rooftops, top-hatted men reeling around ornate liquor stills, a giant of a mam walking a dog up the back of his leg, a six-legged bull with cresccent horns and a pendulum tail. By turn sophisticated and naive, whimsical and sinister, the paintings give a stunning vision of Bill Traynor's unique genius." 2 lb 5.9 oz. Seller Inventory # 19BilMar