Aggrey of Africa: A Study in Black and White by SMITH, Edwin W - 1929

Hardcover.

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Student Christian Movement, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 9x6x2. 292 pages (complete). The boards are edge worn with knocked corners and marks/insect marks on the spine. The binding is secure. Tanning on the end pages. Small closed tear on the frontispiece. No inscriptions or annotations. Extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. r*18/01/2024 JHK.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Student Christian Movement, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. boards are worn and marked. foxing and tanning.previous ownership inscription. sound binding.due to weight postal adjustments may be required.19-10-2020. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Student Christian Movement Press 1929. Super octavo, hardcover (VG-) in d/w (scruffy); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

New York: Richard R. Smith, 1930. Edition and printing not stated. Title page bears date of 1930; copyright page dated 1929. Octavo. Publisher's black cloth boards, with printed paper spine label; xii,[1]-292pp; illus. Small stain to text block fore-edge, else a tight, clean and unmarked copy. Lacking the dustwrapper. Biography of the influential Ghanaian intellectual, missionary, and educational reformer James Enman Kwegyir Aggrey, written shortly after his death in 1927.

London: Student Christian Movement Press, 1929. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding which leans a little and has mottling to the spine. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. . Hardback. Physically 8¾” x 5¼” (1 kg); 292pp; Index; Includes: Timeline; Black & white photographs; Maps to the lining papers; Frontispiece portrait; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #191434|| Condition:

Friendship Press, 1929-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 5.0761 in x 22.8426 in x 15.2284 in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age.

New York: Published for The Phelps-Stokes Fund by The Friendship Press (1929), 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [4], v-xii, [2], 3-292 pp. Black cloth with black lettering and a decoration printed on a white paper label on the spine. Price of $1.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a full-page photograph of J.E.K. Aggrey. Black Past, Jacob Gordon, "JAMES EMMANUEL KWEGYIR AGGREY (1875-1927)". James Aggrey was born to Ghanian royalty in the latter part of the nineteenth century. During his lifetime he earned two doctorates, became an ordained minister, worked as a professor, and advocated for interracial harmony in the United States, as well as the right of self-determination for African peoples. In 1920 and 1921 he undertook a tour of Western and Central Africa and observed the effects of colonialism on these places. He was admired by several of his contemporaries and is remembered as a hardworking and generous… Read More

New York: Published for the Phelps-Stokes Fund by the Friendship Press, 1929. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 292pp. Fine in lightly spine-toned and nicked else near fine dustwrapper. Gift inscription to the noted gay black book collector Glenn Carrington by Townes(?) Jesse Jones. Biography of a noted African-born black educator and explorer. This true first edition is very uncommon, especially in jacket.