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CREOLEDOM : A STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF FREETOWN SOCIETY
by Porter, Arthur T
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London, England: Oxford University Press, 1963. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Good. London, England: Oxford University Press, 1963. First edition. 8 3/4 x 5/34 inches: pp. xii, 151. Green, cloth-covered boards, with gilt lettering to spine. Plus Appendix, Selected Bibliography, and Index. 4 photographic plates (B & W), and 6 maps, one of which is a fold-out.
Slight spine lean. Wear to cloth on spine edges, upper corner is slightly torn. Previous owner's stamp to front pastedown. Occasional pencil bracketing throughout. Binding shaken, but sound. A revision of the author's dissertation on "The Development of the Creole Society of Freetown, Sierra Leone: A Study in Social Stratification and the Processesof Social Mobility"
Slight spine lean. Wear to cloth on spine edges, upper corner is slightly torn. Previous owner's stamp to front pastedown. Occasional pencil bracketing throughout. Binding shaken, but sound. A revision of the author's dissertation on "The Development of the Creole Society of Freetown, Sierra Leone: A Study in Social Stratification and the Processesof Social Mobility"
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- Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 614
- Title
- CREOLEDOM : A STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF FREETOWN SOCIETY
- Author
- Porter, Arthur T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION (NAP)
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Sierra Leone, Black Settler Communities, Liberated Africans, Creole Ascendancy,
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Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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Eugene, Oregon
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