Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture FESTAC’77
£200
Lagos, , 1977.
Oblong 4to; original cloth; dust-jacket.
The souvenir book of the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture.
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A fine copy in fine dust-jacket.
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