Wonders of the African World
by Henry Louis Gates Jr
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375402357
- ISBN 13
- 9780375402357
- Seller
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Ridgeley, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Previous owner's name is on the top outside corner of the front free end paper. There is a small ding at the top outside front corner of the binding and first several pages of the text. Price unclipped DJ is without tears or chips. DJ has the backing of a price label attached to the front outside corner. Sixty-six photos by Lynn Davis included.
Synopsis
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities and the chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. The author of seven previous books, including the widely acclaimed memoir Colored People , Professor Gates has also edited several anthologies and is coeditor with Kwame Anthony Appiah of Encarta Africana , an encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. An influential cultural critic, he is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and other publications and is the recipient of many honors, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal. Lynn Davis has won international acclaim for her photographs of sacred sights and landscapes all over the world. She has had thirty-two one-person exhibitions and is represented in numerous private and public collections. Born in Minneapolis, she lives in New York City; Hudson, New York; and Nova Scotia.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grampy's Bookcase (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- bc1504067
- Title
- Wonders of the African World
- Author
- Henry Louis Gates Jr
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial hard cover.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375402357
- ISBN 13
- 9780375402357
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 275
- Keywords
- Africa
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.