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Eneas Africanus
by Edwards, Harry Stillwell
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Macon, Georgia: J. W. Burke Company, 1932. First Thus . Soft cover. Good+. Fictionalized, but based on true accounts, of a former enslaved man in the post-Civil War South making his way back "home" to his old master. First self-published by the author in 1920, this is the First Edition, first printing, from the J. W. Burke Co. of Macon, GA, from 1932 (First, thus). Small16 mo (5.25" x 7") in mottled light blue wrappers, lettered in darker blue script to front cover, stapled binding. In 47 pages with list of author's other books in rear, duo-fold map stapled in center. Condition is Good+: completely clean & unmarked inside save for faded gift inscription to verso of half title page dated 1937. Frontispiece of the author is tearing away from binding at lower edge, about 2" up; all other pages secure. Exterior edges of both covers extend beyond the page edges & show many small, short tears to fore edge; interior pages flawless. Noticeable stain to front cover, nowhere else. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023502
- Title
- Eneas Africanus
- Author
- Edwards, Harry Stillwell
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- J. W. Burke Company
- Place of Publication
- Macon, Georgia
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- slaves enslaved workers laborers black African American Civil War Georgia whites master plantation freedom emancipation race racial racism south southern travelogue letters
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography-Biography-Journals-Letters; Race/Ethnic Studies-Literature / African/Black Americans; Ephemera;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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