Doran Ross Editor (9 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Clean and unmarked. Binding strong. Light edge wear to cover. Photos available upon request.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Large quarto in stiff paper covers. Color and B&W illustrations. Condition: minor nick to top of spine; slight wear; else very good. Pages: xxiv, 424.

Pictorial Softcover. Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. First Edition. Paperback. AN IN-DEPTH, INVALUABLE LITERARY AND PHOTOGRAPHIC CHRONICLE OF THE ELEPHANT AND THE USE, BELIEFS, AND TRADITIONS OF IVORY IN AFRICAN CULTURE! Rubbing (common on black-colored covers), elsewise a bright, clean, tight, crisp copy sans other flaws. Book published in conjunction with the 1992 Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, CA exhibit of the same name. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED in full-color and black-and-white photography (many full or double-page)) with accompanying descriptive captions. 424 pages. NOTE: Due to the large size and approximate 6 lb. shipping weight of the book quite significant additional shipping cost will be requested/required for OUT-OF-U.S. shipment. LBCMA5.…

Paperback. Condition: As New. Inscribed to a curator by Doran Ross. Light shelf wear. U.S. orders are shipped from Lewiston, NY location.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 0930741269. Oversized, Heavy, Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with rubs to edges and corners of covers. No statement of later printing on copyright page. No Signature.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 128 pages. 9.75x7.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The book is in overall fine condition, in a good dust jacket with some evident wear, now protected in a mylar jacket. xxiv, 423 pages, approximately 260 color and 235 b/w photographs, 18 drawings, 7 maps. Cloth cover. An important work, richly presented and dealing with a topic not heavily represented in the literature of African art, this impressive volume explores the depiction of the elephant and its ivory in a wide group of African cultures. Serving as the catalogue for an exhibition at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, this profusely illustrated volume contains more than 500 illustrations (over half in color and nineteen essays that examine the role of the elephant in the ritual and art of much of sub-Saharan Africa.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 240 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.24 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1994 , 159 pp The Jerome L. Joss Collection of African Art at Ucla Doran H. Ross, Editor Fowler Museum of Cultural History University of California, Los Angeles, Soft Cover.