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Salah and His American
by Hall, Leland
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Mansonville, Quebec, Canada
Item Price
£7.91£6.33
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1935. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. "SALAH AND HIS AMERICAN"- Leland Hall- Alfred Knopf-NY-1935-1st Thus- Hardcover: - VG++/ no DJ- original Quarter cloth spine with green striped paper covered boards- gilt title on cover and spine- spine sunned. - 199pp all clean, 1 double paged monotone illustration- Two page M. De Gogorza illustration.-SEE PHOTOS- From the '30's Knopf collection of books on The Negro. Others are by Melville J. Herskovits, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, and Walter White. - "a young negro boy, out of work and stranded, who fastens himself like a faithful dog on an American visiting in Morocco. The man finally engages him as a house-boy, and Salah, with the soul of a slave ready to idolize a kind master, roots himself unbudgingly. He cannot understand that he is a servant for a month, not a lifetime. Salah, with centuries of black Africa in his blood, is finally left behind- equipped to drive a ..."-; Monochrome; 12mo 7" - 7�" tall; (14)
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- Bookseller
- jakoll
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14
- Title
- Salah and His American
- Author
- Hall, Leland
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus; First Printing
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- Fiction-morocco-US-slavery-illustrated
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About the Seller
jakoll
Biblio member since 2007
Mansonville, Quebec
About jakoll
We specialize in Modern 1st Edition, Children's books, Vintage classics, vinyl records, original movie posters, sports cards, comics, postage stamps and coins.We only sell online at this time and have been doing so for over 30 years.
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- 12mo
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- First Edition
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Sunned
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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