Banjo: A Story Without a Plot
by McKay, Claude
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Harper & Brothers, 1929. Hardcover. Good. (C-D, March, 1929) Smaller, sturdy book, black cloth spine and sides with black wavy design lines to red cloth boards front and back, gilt lettering near-bright on spine, a light crease down spine middle, a silver wavy design with cream background inside covers and adjacent end papers, 326 page. Tips have slight surface wear. No dust jacket. Near Very Good.
Synopsis
Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront as “Banjo,” prowls the rough waterfront bistros with his drifter friends, drinking, looking for women, playing music, fighting, loving, talking about their homes in Africa, the West Indies, or the American South, and about being black.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 059671
- Title
- Banjo: A Story Without a Plot
- Author
- McKay, Claude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Date Published
- 1929
Terms of Sale
Callaghan Books South
Books may be returned with 5 days for full refund--in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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