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The Slave Girl
by Buchi Emecheta
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good or better, foxed text block and light wear to edges. Near Fine unclipped jacket, one crease to front flap, mild toning
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: George Braziller, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine. 179 pp. Very Good or better, foxed text block and light wear to edges. Near Fine unclipped jacket, one crease to front flap, mild toning and soiling.. Jacket design by Lionel Stern.. Attractive First American Edition of the fourth novel from the eminent Nigerian novelist.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1642
- Title
- The Slave Girl
- Author
- Buchi Emecheta
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Lionel Stern.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine. 179 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good or better, foxed text block and light wear to edges. Near Fine unclipped jacket, one crease to front flap, mild toning
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Braziller
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
Terms of Sale
Better Read Than Dead
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
Biblio member since 2023
Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- First Edition
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