Africa Dances: A Book About West African Negroes

by Geoffrey Gorer 

First American edition.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1935   

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition, with a GOOD DJ under Mylar.

• Ivory cloth covers are mostly clean, with illustration in red and indigo.  Boards show some edgewear, a small ding at spine shoulder.  Corners are bumped.  See photos. 
• Spine has red text and is darkened, with softened ends.
• Binding is strong. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some staining. 
• Illustrations, black and white photographs, are bound in blocks.  
• Interior exhibits scattered foxing, some smudges.
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. 
• Text block edges fore and foot are untrimmed.
• Illustrated DJ is nicely preserved behind Mylar and is backed with archival paper.
• Beneath Mylar, DJ has some edgewear, chipped corners, bumping along foot edge, some staining, wear at spine shoulders, bookseller sticker.  See photos. 
• PS2024.0606

337 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches

A very good copy of this first American edition of Geoffrey Gorer's work of travel, exploration, and anthropology, with the original dust jacket.  Geoffrey Gorer (1905-1985) was an English anthropologist and writer known for his application of psychoanalytic techniques to the practice of anthropology.

The outcome of a journey taken to West Africa with the dancer Féral Benga, whom Gorer met in Paris, this work observes and describes the cultural practices of native West Africa, both isolated from white Europeans and as affected by European colonialism.

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