Black Kingdoms: Black Peoples
by Atmore, Anthony Forman, Werner
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG/GD
- ISBN 10
- 0856133035
- ISBN 13
- 9780856133039
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1979* Publisher: Orbis Publishing Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Slight bumps, minor rubs, minimal shelf wear. VG* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing Benin ceremonial costume and sword-sceptre now in protected jacket. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, but showing no shelf price. Considerable shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Some small chips and tears. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Illustrated end papers showing maps at front and rear. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Numerous colour photo-illustrations throughout.* Pages: 125 pp. text. iv pp. acknowledgements, bibliography, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: The ancient societies of West Africa form an endlessly vivid tapestry of culture, history, art, religion and customs. For centuries their people were a mystery to the West, known mainly as traders in gold and the source of forced labour, but also alternately misunderstood and admired as the makers of magnificent carvings and as the followers of potent cults. Writing from a close familiarity with African peoples and a deep knowledge of their history, Anthony Atmore presents a fascinating account of their way of life and thought. He looks beyond the diversity of the different civilisations at the times of their greatest flowering to see their unifying elements, fundamental attitudes and common beliefs.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st. edition with minor cover wear reduced by damaged jacket to GD. Now in protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 350
- Title
- Black Kingdoms: Black Peoples
- Author
- Atmore, Anthony Forman, Werner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG/GD
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0856133035
- ISBN 13
- 9780856133039
- Publisher
- Orbis Publishing.
- Place of Publication
- London UK 128
- Date Published
- 1979-10-08
- Size
- 30 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm
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