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Banjo: a Story Without a Plot
by McKay, Claude, 1890-1940
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Hamden, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fair. 326p. Original orange and blue ripple-striped paper-covered boards, backed in black cloth. 19 cm. Worn copy. Spine somewhat sloped. Joints and extremities rubbed with some loss of cloth. Rear endpaper cracking along hinge. Minor insect damage in upper right corner of first dozen pages, one of which has a short tear repaired with a piece of adhesive paper tape. Paper remnants of old bookplate or label inside front cover. Faint waterstain on bottom of some leaves. No jacket. Fiction about Banjo, an African American, in Marseilles (France).
Synopsis
Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront as “Banjo,” prowls the rough waterfront bistros with his drifter friends, drinking, looking for women, playing music, fighting, loving, talking about their homes in Africa, the West Indies, or the American South, and about being black.
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Details
- Bookseller
- McBlain Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94046
- Title
- Banjo: a Story Without a Plot
- Author
- McKay, Claude, 1890-1940
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1929
Terms of Sale
McBlain Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
McBlain Books
Biblio member since 2009
Hamden, Connecticut
About McBlain Books
Our second floor shop contains about 15,000 volumes and is open by appointment. Established 1970. We have been a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America for over 45 years. While there is a heavy emphasis in our stock on African Americana, Africa, Asia and the Middle East we also buy and sell antiquarian books on other subjects.
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- Fair
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- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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