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Mamba's Daughters
by Du Bose Heyward
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran , 1929. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION STATED First printing by definition. A very clean, very solid and bright copy with bumped spine and minor wear to corners. Paper label on spine is fine. one small label on verso of cover may be a bookshop label but all it says is " The sign of the Mermaid". Top of text block is trimmed and retains it's black stain and the fore-edge and bottom of text block is untrimmed. The jacket is VG+ with chipping to spine top and extremities. Spine is faded slightly. Jacket is repaired on verso and unclipped ($2.50). and protected in mylar. Mamba's daughters is a stirring novel of the black people and white people (1929) of romantic and romanticized Charleston. It's pathos, it's humor, it's drama and it's vital realism are winning an even greater that came to the author's other famous novel, Porgy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Oshtemo Book Sellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000293
- Title
- Mamba's Daughters
- Author
- Du Bose Heyward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday Doran
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Pages
- 311
- Keywords
- First Edition
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Oshtemo Book Sellers
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- Chipping
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- Jacket
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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