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Battiss (Walter)

THE ARTISTS OF THE ROCKS (Limited edition signed by the artist)

Published: Red Fawn Press, Pretoria, 1948

Edition: First Edition

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First Edition: 249 + 1 page - a hand-drawn map, 15 tipped-in colour plates, tipped-in capitals in the Bushman style, many photographs and sketches of Bushman paintings, orange cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket which is frayed along the edges.

This edition is limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 124 signed by Walter Battiss on the verso of the title page.

With:

An eight page booklet "Landscapes of the Soul", written by the Abbé Henri Breuil to Walter Battiss on the occasion of the prehistoric art exhibition opened by Professor C. Van Riet Lowe at the Gainsborough Galleries, Johannesburg, no 24th October, 1944., 8 pages, 3 photographic plates.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 4to (290 x 230mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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