The Harmon Foundation (4 results)

First edition. 110 pages. Hardcover; H 22.25cm x L 27cm. White dust jacket rubbed with light soiling, spine and flap fold ends nicked, several closed tears at edges; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Brown cloth with bright gilt spine lettering, slight scuffing at spine ends and tips of board corners. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket. Features a total of eighty-six b/w photographs throughout including frontispiece; Preface by editor Carole Harmon; essay "A Biographical Portrait of Byron Harmon" on pages 7-20 by Bart Robinson; and essay "An Appreciation" on pages 103-109 by Jon Whyte. ISBN 019540288X.…

Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 8vo pp. 86. B/W images throughout, revised reprint. book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 110pp. 10.9 x 8.8 inches landscape format. Tan textured buckram, gilt titles. Book about as new, with rubbed lower edges, and slightly to upper corners and top of spine, lightly foxed tops. Internally pristine. In pictorial jacket with slight shelfwear, and a few short taped tears. Contains 86 of Byron Harmon's b/w photographs, with captions, and the Biography and Appreciation. Dramatic mountain scenes plus genre pictures of some of the people who inhabit the mountains. Enormous historical interest. 650g. (USA, History, Mountain, Exploration, American Indian, Wild West, Photography, Rocky Mountains) Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.…

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Slim octavo. Catalogue published for the 1931 iteration of the Harmon Foundation's annual exhibition of Black artists (Feb. 16 - Feb. 28, 1931), which included the likes of James Richmond Barthé, Sargent Claude Johnson, Archibald Motley, Laura Wheeler Waring, Hale Woodruff, and James Lesense Wells, the winner of the 1930 Harmon Award. Featuring 31 monochrome reproductions of exhibited artworks, a series of texts from curators and institutional custodians (including "Some Historical Reflections" by A. A. Schomburg), and short artist biographies. Faint stain to front panel of illustrated wrappers, else near fine.…