A KIND OF HOMECOMING
by Braithwaite, E.R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++/Very Good
- Seller
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Calgary , Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1962 First edition 1962 collectible description of four Afrrican countries: Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana visited by E.R. Braithwaite in 1961. It is noteworthy that South Africa was not included in his itinerary, although he did visit in 1973 and wrote a book about it, Honorary White, named after the status granted him by South Africa so that he could be issued a visa. Braithwaite was born in Guyana to Oxford educated parents. The only job he could find after service with the R.A.F.and a post-war Phd in physics was as a teacher in an eastend London school. His experiences there were the foundation for his not uncontroversial 1959 novel, To Sir, With Love which was made into a film in 1967. Very Good dust jacket, unclipped, with original $4.95 price tag, somewhat faded and showing some surface wear and rubbing at corners and spine top and tail, subtitled, ``a compassionate portrayal of ermerging Africa by a non-African negro.` Very good ++ tan boards shown very slight wear to corners and top and bottom of spine, perhaps very light toning to pages and gift inscription from Christmas 1964 on fep. Mint Interior pages, may be unread.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sparkle Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000888
- Title
- A KIND OF HOMECOMING
- Author
- Braithwaite, E.R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall
- Place of Publication
- New Jersey
- Date Published
- 1962
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NONFICTION HISTORY AFRICA AFRICAN-AMERICAN
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About the Seller
Sparkle Books
Biblio member since 2008
Calgary , Alberta
About Sparkle Books
I search out used books on principle to highlight their value, keep them circulating and out of the landfill (and just because I am compelled to tell people to "read this"!)
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