Camille Billops (26 results)

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Sofcover, 70 pgs. Essays, color and b&w illus. Light wear.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

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 in 1974 to support African-American culture. Among the artists included in the exhibit were Camille Billops, Melvin Edwards, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Sana Musasama, Helen Ramsaran, and Bonnie Rychlak.…

Original-Broschur, 4°, 85 Seiten. With a Foreword by Toni Morrison Umschlag gebräunt und etwas fleckig, Kanten bestossen, sonst gut. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator).

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 Illustrated (illustrator).…

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. Illustrations are bright and clear. Interior is gently age-toned. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block edges are foxed. See photos.** PS2025.0702** 85 pages. 9 x 10.5 inches** A Very Good copy of this now uncommon book that records death and the rituals surrounding it. Photo-illustrated wraps printed in sepia are very good, with a scratch visible to the back cover. The interior is a little toned, with generously sized photographs and very readable text.** The photographs by James Van Der Zee (1886-1983), together with poetry by Owen Dodson and the conversational text captured by Camille Billops, "reveal the history of a time in Harlem, now past, when society cared for both the living and the dead, the belief that we must preserve a standard of pride representing order high in spiritual and temporal values." The setting is Harlem, but stress is laid on the universality of human experience.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #010263"**. James Van Der Zee (illustrator).…

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 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. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator).…

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 Harlem, now past, when society cared for both the living and the dead, the belief that we must preserve a standard of pride representing order high in spiritual and temporal values" ; 85 pages. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Foreword by Toni Morrison; Shiny white wraps with sepia titles & borders with photo to each cover; A very good paperback copy witwh small curl to front cover; 9"x10.5"; 85 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Printing. Scuffs on edges and spine. James Van Der Zee (illustrator).

hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). book.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. 9 x 11 in. Paper wraps. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean, minor wear to corners and spine ends. Binding tight, text spotless. Phot. RGR.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy, 56 pages, illustrated covers and text, b&w photo of poets in rear.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. First Edition. 4to, 86pp. Printed wraps. Numerous sepia plates. Text in English. Funeral rites and photographs from Harlem during the first half of the twentieth century. From the inside flap- "The Harlem Book of the Dead with its photographs, poems and text are more than representational reflections of mourning rites. They reveal the history of a time in Harlem, now past, when society cared for both the living and the dead, in the belief that we must preserve a standard of pride representing order high in spiritual and temporal values. There is a purging of sorrow in the very pageantry of funerals. Carelessness about death might reflect carelessness about life. The examples of ritual as presented in this volume are as universal as death - and there are Harlem's everywhere.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Octavo. 56pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Fine. Poems by James Hatch and Victoria Sullivan, with illustrations by noted African-American artist and sculptor Camille Billops, who is married to Hatch. Very uncommon. *OCLC* locates five copies.…

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 new and used bookstore since 1992. …

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. EXHIBITION POSTCARD, colored drawing by Billops on front, exhib. Dec 2009 to Jan. 2010. mailed with mailing label to the legendary passing photographer Eric La Prade.VVmailing150.

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 portraits, using unique retouching techniques and staging which echoed Victorian and Edwardian traditions. His funerary photos of the people of Harlem are accompanied here with writing by Camille Billops and poetry by Owen Dodson. Toni Morrison provided a foreword to the book and a story behind one of the photographs in the collection was influence for Morrison?s novel Jazz (1992).  A near fine copy, a little browning and rubbing to the extremities.…

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. He was specialized in funerals. This book includes many of his photographs, with his comments. The text, by Camille Billops, is primarily an interview with the artist at the age of 91. Includes poetry, by Owen Dodson, inspired by some of the photos.…

dj. 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 free endpaper, and light toning to contents. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a few small closed tears to edges, crease and spot of age staining at bottom corner of front flap, and miniscule stain to base of spine at verso. Throughout his legendary career as a Harlem Renaissance portrait photographer, James Van Der Zee documented life and, in these instances, death. A unique and poignant monograph of funerary portraits that draw the viewer into a sorrowful pageantry of loved ones lost. Each portrait is seamlessly paired with an allegorical persona poem written in a fictitious voice of the dead. Rare in the signed limited hardcover edition. Signed.…

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 contributes a poem, a very scarce Afro-A themed mag. from the mimeo rev.(VV3/1).…