The Nigger Bible
by deCoy, Robert H. & Dick Gregory
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Holloway House. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., (1967). "First Printing, 1967" (stated). 304pp. Paperback, good plus condition: gentle vertical crease to spine, cocked, covers slightly worn with few tiny light spots, lightly soiled, faint spots on first blank leaf, leaves mildly age-toned, secure. Preface by Dick Gregory in which he points to deCoy's discarding academic and religious norms in order to reveal many aspects of black culture, which he does in sixteen chapters; here are two of note - Chapter 10: Proverbs and Notes to My Nigger Son (89 total); and Chapter 2: The First Dictionary of Nigriet Words. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 304 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dale A. Sorenson
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13368
- Title
- The Nigger Bible
- Author
- deCoy, Robert H. & Dick Gregory
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Holloway House
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- Black Literature, African American, Americana
Terms of Sale
Dale A. Sorenson
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Dale A. Sorenson
Biblio member since 2015
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Dale A. Sorenson
Used and rare books of quality in all subjects.
Glossary
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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