Touch Innocence, Signed (3 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED and inscribed by Ms. Dunham on 3"x5" card attached to front end page: "To Sandra Monte.love, Katherine Graham, New York, 16 March 2002". DJ rubbed and faded with edge wear and chips on lower rear. Small pen notation on DJ flap. $4.95 price present on DJ flap. Author's second book. Also includes laid-in the original New York Times obituary for Dunham. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. AUTHOR SIGNATURE.

Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959. First Edition. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; blue cloth boards stamped in gilt; 312pp. Unclipped dust jacket chipped with surface scratching and smudging. Shelfwear to boards; edges sunned; a few scuffs. Binding sound; some smudges and spots to endpapers; Good to Very Good. Signed by Katherine Dunham at front free endpaper with brief inscription to Sue and Bob Rossen, the latter being Robert Rossen, the screenwriter and film director. Rossen is most known for "All the King's Men" and "The Hustler" but also wrote and directed the Italian/American co-production "Mambo" which was choreographed by and featured Dunham. Aside from her film credits, Dunham had a whole career conductingground-breaking research in anthropology at the University of Chicago before pivoting to dance. Indeed her decolonizing work studying the African diaspora in the Caribbean helped inform her long and lauded career as a performer. As she said in a 2002 interview: "My problemmy strong drive at that time was to remain in this academic position that anthropology gave me, and at the same time continue with this strong drive for motionrhythmic motion." A scarce mid-career memoir from a towering figure in African-American modern dance and dance anthropology.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. London: Cassell, 1960. First UK Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket by architecture and Blues historian Paul Oliver;312pp. Dust jacket shows rubbing to edges with a short closed tear to top edge of front panel; spine sunned. Mild shelfwear to boards; old staining to top edge; binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good.Signed by Katherine Dunham ontitle page. Dunham had a whole career conductingground-breaking research in anthropology at the University of Chicago before pivoting to dance. Indeed her decolonizing work studying the African diaspora in the Caribbean helped inform her long and lauded career as a performer. As she said in a 2002 interview: "My problemmy strong drive at that time was to remain in this academic position that anthropology gave me, and at the same time continue with this strong drive for motionrhythmic motion." A scarce mid-career memoir from a towering figure in African-American modern dance and dance anthropology.