Mister Johnson: A Novel
by CARY, Joyce
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Good dust jacket. [c.1950s]. Hardcover. An undated early printing of the author's story, set West Africa and centered around his Mister Johnson character, an African man who ". . .swims gaily on the surface of life. . .". Anglo-Irish Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (1888-1957) was an officer in the British colonial service in Africa immediately after World War I. --- This edition bears no specific publication date but may have been published c.1950s; despite bearing "first edition" statement to copyright page, this is probably not a first edition. First published in England in 1939, and reissued in 1948. --- In textured olive paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, with gilt-stamped spine titling. Unclipped jacket with drawing of title character in a village scene. --- With inked gift inscription to front free endpaper, a couple of scratches to covers, otherwise a clean, firmly-bound copy. Jacket with good-sized open tear to top edge of cover; some random rubbing but intact and protected in removable clear mylar wrapper.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); (8), 261 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82334
- Title
- Mister Johnson: A Novel
- Author
- CARY, Joyce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1950s]
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