Black Magic

Multiple artists/makers

1929

Not on view

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Catalogue Raisonné

Title: Black Magic
Author: Paul Morand (French, Paris 1888–1976)
Translator: Hamish Miles (British, 1894–1937)
Illustrator: Aaron Douglas (American, Topeka, Kansas 1899–1979 Nashville, Tennessee)
Publisher: Viking Press
Date: 1929
Medium: Illustrations: lithographs
Dimensions: 8 7/16 x 5 7/8 in. (21.5 x 15 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of David W. Kiehl, in memory of John J. McKendry, 1975
Object Number: 1975.635.3
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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