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Black Humor
by Johnson, Charles R
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Small quarto. Unpaginated. Soft cover bound in white and black wrappers. The binding is worn and bumped. Front cover has some creases at the bottom corner. This also affects the half title, the title page, and the first few pages of the text. Spine is toned. Text block is separated from the binding but is sound. Prior owner's bookplate (George Breathett) inside the front cover (George Breathett was a professor of history at Bennett College in Greensboro, NC). Text is sound and clean. A collection of cartoons focused on racism and the position of African Americans in American society in 1970.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051447
- Title
- Black Humor
- Author
- Johnson, Charles R
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1970; Charles Johnson; Cartoon; Art; Artist; African-American; Blacks; George Breathett.
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-American;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- 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....
- Spine
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
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