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Banjo: A Story without a Plot
by McKay, Claude
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine. 1929. 5th printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, but encased and protected by a new, professionally-produced FACSIMILE jacket) [a very nice copy, the gilt spine lettering a bit rubbed but otherwise the book is unblemished, and has an attractive vintage bookseller's label (from The Satyr Book Shop, Hollywood) on the rear pastedown]. The second of three novels by this Jamaican-born author, a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Set along the Marseilles waterfont, its protagonist is a jazz musician, making his away among "the flotsam and jetsam of the human tide [which] sweep into Marseilles from every corner of the world." Please NOTE that this book comes with a new FACSIMILE dust jacket (see second scanned image), but this has not been factored into our pricing. .
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
- ReadInk
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28306
- Title
- Banjo: A Story without a Plot
- Author
- McKay, Claude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 5th printing
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York/London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- African American, Marseilles, Harlem Renaissance
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About the Seller
ReadInk
Biblio member since 2003
Los Angeles, California
About ReadInk
Now in our 24th year of on-line bookselling, ReadInk offers an eclectic selection of quality books in a variety of subject areas. We are dedicated to the first-class treatment of every book we sell and its new owner (our customer). All orders and inquiries receive our prompt, personal attention. Our grading of a book's condition is conservative ("Fine" is our highest grade, and used sparingly); all significant flaws are described, but we will be happy to provide additional information and/or a scanned image upon request. Your book will be shipped promptly, well-wrapped and securely packaged; the dust jacket, if any, will be enclosed in a new Brodart cover.
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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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....
- 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...
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