first edition
1991 · New York
by TRAYLOR, Bill, Frank Maresca, and Roger Ricco
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 192 pages. A monograph on Bill Traylor who only began drawing at the age of 85 after a lifetime spent as a farmer on an Alabama plantation where he lived initially as a slave and then until 1939 to farm. Features text by Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco. Includes 152 illustrations, a chronology, a list of previous exhibitions, and a bibliography. A clean very near fine copy in cloth boards in a very near fine dust jacket. (Inventory #: 193017)