Lot 684

Elton C. Fax SIGNED Book "Through Black Eyes" 1974 HC Afro-American Travel 1st/1st Printing In DJ

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Elton C. Fax SIGNED Book "Through Black Eyes" 1974 HC Afro-American Travel 1st/1st Printing In DJ
Elton C. Fax SIGNED Book "Through Black Eyes" 1974 HC Afro-American Travel 1st/1st Printing In DJ
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Elton C. Fax SIGNED Book "Through Black Eyes" 1974 HC Afro-American Travel 1st/1st Printing In DJ

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VINTAGE 1974 Illustrated Hardcover Afro-American Travel 1st Edition 1st Printing In Dust Jacket. "Through Black Eyes: Journeys Of A Black Artist To East Africa & Russia" by Elton Fax. HARDCOVER 1974 Dodd, Mead & Company 1st Edition 1st Printing with "Copyright 1974" & with no additional printings on copyright page. Nice Collectible 1st Edition 1st Printing hardcover in Dust Jacket. Exactly as shown in listing scan(s). SCARCE SIGNED BLACK ARTIST BOOK; ONLY 1 SIGNED COPY ON INTERNET AT TIME OF LISTING.

"An account of Fax's trips first to Africa—to Uganda, Northern Sudan, Ethiopia, & Tanzania—and then to Moscow and the then Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. In each of these exotic areas, so different in many respects, he was to find the history of oppression by colonialism, as it had occurred in similar ways among black Americans at home. Everywhere he went the artist in Elton Fax recorded with beautiful drawings, even as the text did in words, what he saw with his own discerning eyes to produce a fascinating view of these parts of the world."

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR/ARTIST ON 1ST BLANK END PAPER: "FOR THE PFAFFLES-/WITH PLEASANT MEMORIES OF A/LOVELY EVENING WITH YOU AT/YOUR HOME IN FAYETTE./BEST WISHES ALWAYS/ELTON-1987."

ELTON C.(LAY) FAX (1909-1993) was an noted Afro-American illustrator, cartoonist, and author. Elton Fax taught art in New York beginning in 1934, and was involved with the WPA Federal Art Project. Fax was an illustrator for magazines such as "Weird Tales", Astounding Science Fiction", "Complete Cowboy", "Real Western," "All Sports", etc. In 1942 he began a newspaper comic named "Susabelle", and later an illustrated history panel, "They'll Never Die", both carried in African-American newspapers. He also created greeting card illustrations for "The Links". He wrote several books & illustrated many more, including books by children's authors such as Georgene Faulkner & Verna Aardema as well as creating dust jacket art for various major publishers. He was one of the fourteen representatives of the American Society for African Culture at an international writer's meeting in Rome in 1959. Sue Thurman donated works by Elton Fax to the "Heritage Hall" a Livingstone College in 1973. He received a Rockefeller Foundation Research Grant in 1976 to travel to Italy. Other awards included the Coretta Scott King Award and the Chancellor's Medal from Syracuse University. The papers of Elton Fax are at the New York Public Library, Boston University, and Syracuse University.

Illustrated with Artist/Author's drawings. Internally tight and unmarked. Binding Exterior; all lettering/decoration bright. Edge wear/closed tears/sunned spine to SELDOM PRESENT $6.95 unclipped DJ. NO REMAINDER MARK; NOT X-LIBRARY. ALL ITEMS ARE GUARANTEED TO BE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED, NOT DEFECTIVE, & GENUINE.

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