Ajaiyi and his Inherited Poverty
by TUTUOLA, AMOS
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Faber and Faber 1967. FIRST EDITION, octavo, orange cloth boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, 235pp, VG (light bruising to spine + extrems, mild scratching + staining to boards, light foxing & tanning to page edges, light to moderate foxing to eps, unobtrusive hatchmarks in pencil to margins sporadically throughout, note in pencil to rear pastedown, mild staining + pinpoint punctures to last 2pps + terminals) in d/w, VG (light creasing to extrems, light rubbing & soiling at flap folds & to back cover, light foxing & soiling to reverse
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- Title
- Ajaiyi and his Inherited Poverty
- Author
- TUTUOLA, AMOS
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber 1967
- Keywords
- literature nigeria nigerian novel african literature amos tutuola yoruba
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- 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...
- Gilt
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Rubbing
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