Banjo: a Story Without a Plot
by McKay, Claude, 1890-1940
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
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. Back strip darkened and lettering barely visible. A few holes in joint cloth. Ends of backstrip chipped and corners rubbed. Thin white mark running diagonally across back cover. Former owner's name (Yvette E. LeRoy) on front free endpaper. Internally sound and clean. 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 #
- 94384
- 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
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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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