Aissa Saved
by Cary, Joyce
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
Item Price
£20.32£14.23
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About This Item
New York And Evenston: Harper & Row. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1962. First American Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition no date, (c1962) (1952 lightly penned under copyright but this would not be correct. ) Beautiful tan board w orange cloth spine, soft ends, lightly rubbed edges, DJ is bright, general wear to edges, front fold has a bit more paint missing but over all an exceptionally nice cover in a new Broadart cover. The authors first book includes a prefatory essay, Drawn from his own experience the author writes a story of Nigeria and of a primitive community newly exposed to revolutionary ideas. First published in 1932 it is rich with characters and incidents giving a remarkable picture of the native mind with its cruel logic, sensuality, superstition.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .
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- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002048
- Title
- Aissa Saved
- Author
- Cary, Joyce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York And Evenston
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- British Novelist, West Africa, Colonial Nigeria, Modernism., Liberal Book Club, Searchlight Books, George Orwell, Fiction; Fiction: Historical ; Africa; Literature & Literary. NOISBN
- Bookseller catalogs
- History: United States; Fiction: Mysteries/Thrillers & General;
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