[HOOPER, collection]. PHELPS, Steven. Art and Artifacts of t - Lot 269

[HOOPER, collection]. PHELPS, Steven. Art and Artifacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas. The James Hooper Collection. London, Hutchinson and Co / Christie, 1975. In-4, publisher's blue cloth boards, in color illustrated dust jacket and cardboard slipcase. 487 pages, 1 color frontispiece, 7 plates of color photographs, 250 plates of black photographs, a few black photographs and maps in the text, catalog, bibliography, index. Text in English, printed on two columns. Slight rubbing to covers and corners of binding and dust jacket. First edition of the catalog of the primitive arts collection of James Thomas Hooper (1897-1971), describing and illustrating some 1,800 ethnographic objects from the Pacific, Africa and America. An invitation to Jean-Michel HUGUENIN to attend the exhibition at Christie's sale on November 9, 1976. A very good copy. Rare and sought-after.