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MICHAEL MANLEY: MAKING OF A LEADER
by E, LEVI D
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0233984720
- ISBN 13
- 9780233984728
- Seller
-
Menifee, California, United States
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About This Item
Carlton Books Limited, 1989-11-01. hardcover. Very Good/Good. 10x6x1. 1989 signed and inscribed first edition, Andre Deutsch (London), 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches tall blue cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, 349 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with bumping to upper tips. Moderate foxing of fore page edges, with light foxing tofront and rear endpapers and dust jacket flaps. On the blank front free-endpaper, nicely inscribed and signed by the author to the prior owner, Murdo J. MacLeod (b. 1935), a Scottish historian of Latin America, who published extensively on the history of colonial-era Central America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic world. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in an edgeworn dust jacket with chipping to the rear upper tip but which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~R~ [2.5P] Traces the life of the Jamaican journalist, labor activist, and politician. Manley (1924-1997) served as the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992. Manley championed a democratic socialist program, and has been described as a populist. He remains one of Jamaica's most popular prime ministers.
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- Bookseller
- Flamingo Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- R-0442-14395
- Title
- MICHAEL MANLEY: MAKING OF A LEADER
- Author
- E, LEVI D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0233984720
- ISBN 13
- 9780233984728
- Publisher
- Carlton Books Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989-11-01
- Size
- 10x6x1
- X weight
- 40 oz
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Flamingo Books
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