The Wings of Oppression
by Hill, Leslie Pinckney
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- First
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rosemont, Pennsylvania
Item Price:
£188.08
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About This Item
Boston: The Stratford Company, 1921. Spine slightly sunned, gilt faded on spine, board edges somewhat bumped. Faint offsetting shadow on copyright and dedication pages. Very nice copy.. First Edition. Cloth Backed Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade.
Synopsis
The first and only book of poetry written by the important African-American educator Leslie Pinckney Hill. Hill attended Harvard from 1899 to 1904, receiving his master’s in education before teaching at Tuskeegee and other institutions.
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Details
- book dealer
- The Title Page ABAA
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- Bookseller’s Inventory #
- W71378
- Title
- The Wings of Oppression
- Author
- Hill, Leslie Pinckney
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- second hand - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Stratford Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1921
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps... [more]
- sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight... [more]
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched... [more]
- 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... [more]
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in... [more]
- 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... [more]
- 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.... [more]
- 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... [more]
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