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Spring Books, London, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Werner Forman -- Photographer. the dustjacket has a large chunk missing from the bottom right-hand corner of the front panel, and has other minor damage. It is price clipped. The top edge of the rear panel of the book has been rubbed and bumped about 3 inches from the spine. There is no other damage to describe. The book is clean and free of annotation. It has 42 colour illustrations, illustrated end pages, and about 240 black-and-white photographs. Of interest because of the architecture, and arts. includes a couple of maps and some facsimiles of documents. Conquest and colonial rule comprises one final chapter. Size: Quarto 9¾" - 12" tall. 320 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Werner Forman -- Photographer. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Africa; Travel & Places. ISBN: 0600300838. ISBN/EAN:…
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Africa. History of a Continent
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(London, Spring Books, 1974). Folio; original purple cloth; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper very slightly edgeworn; pictorial endpapers; mild foxing to prelim's; top edge of text block slightly discoloured; pp. 320, incl. index; profusely illustrated with maps and photographs by Werner Forman, some of which in colour. Good condition. "Into a single volume he has gathered together the myriad strands of the history of the races spread across the face of this vast continent, both north and south of the Sahara. His personal studies over a long period and his analysis of archaeological research have enabled him to piece together valuable and surprisingly complete evidence of the ancient and medieval African cultures and their emergence into today's world. He tells the story of how these cultures developed internally and of the contacts with Asian, European and American cultures which influenced the direction of their development." Please note that this book is rather heavy, and postage will be determined according to destination and the customer's preferred method of despatch. .
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- Keywords African history. Ethnology. Anthropology. Demography. Tribes. Races. Exploration. Discovery African History
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Africa, history of a continent
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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 320pp hardback, black cloth gilt in wrapper, decorated end-papers, illustrated in bw and colour, front hinge cracked and ?repaired, photography by Werner Forman . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1966.
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Africa History of a Continent
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New York, NY: Macmillan Co, 1972. New Ed 1st Pr. Hardbound. Folio. 486 Pgs.. Fine in Good DJ/Good. Werner Forman. Africa History of a Continent by Basil Davidson. Published by Macmillan Co, New York, NY, 1972. New Edition 1st Printing. Hardbound. Paper DJ. Folio (up to 15'' tall). Condition: Fine in Good DJ. 320 Pgs. ISBN 0025296701. LCCN 66-15495. Photographs by Werner Forman. The author traces African history from the earliest contacts with Dynastic Egypt to the cultural, political, and economic influences of the post-colonial period. He has gathered together in a single volume the myriad strands of the history of the races spread across the face of this vast continent, both north and south of the Sahara. Description text copyright 2005 BooksForComfort. Item ID 8315.
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London, Spring Books 1972.. 320pp. Folio. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Innumerable monochrome and coloured illustrations, maps , pictorial endpapers. Owner's name on ffe, edges browned, otherwise a very good copy.
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Spring Books,, 1976-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Revised Edition with dust jacket - collectable - will send out 1 st class post
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Africa. History of a Continent
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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966 F/F-. Folio. original black cloth gilt in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a trifle rubbed, short closed tear to top edge, spine slightly sunned); pp. 320, with numerous illustrations. Very heavy item (2.25kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A fine copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. F/F-.
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New York: The macmillan Company, 1972. Black boards with gold gilt lettering on spine. Lovley and clean. Endpapers have the Asante Yam Festival, Bowditch. Lavishly illustrated with both black and white and colour photographs. Red background on dustjacket with full colour photgraph of an African woman with a head scarf, nose ring and absolutely huge earrings. Dust jacket is clipped, and is a bit worn about the edges. Any picture found beside this listing may NOT actually be a picture of this book but a stock photo used by the listing site. 3 R's Used Books and Hannelore Headley Old & Fine Books, Inc. are committed to saving the trees one leaf at a time.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+.
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