Search Results: african clearings by mackenzie jean kenyon

Boston And New York Houghton Mif, 1924-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.5000 7.2000 4.9000. Like shelf wear. Slightly yellowed pages from aging.

London: Martin Hopkinson & Company. Good; Owner's Name Inside. 1926. Hardback. 162 pages .

Boston, 1924. hardcover. Small 8vo. Boston, 1924.<br/><br/>

MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good plus no dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Martin Hopkinson & Co Ltd, 1926. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1926. No Edition Remarks. 162 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Occasional thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. White paper remnant to front board. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Scuffing and light marking overall. Light tanning to spine and edges. Dark rubbing to surfaces.

Martin Hopkinson & Co, 1926. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 162 pages (complete). Boards edge worn, sunned, marked. Foxing, tanning, previous ownership inscriptions, minor markings. However, it is still in good condition, tightly bound and intact. MK.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Martin Hopkinson, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Boards are worn and marked.Internally clean.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Houghton Mifflin, 1924. First Edition. Owner inscription, plus price to the first page. Good to Very Good condition.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Near Fine condition in a Good+ dust jacket. The jacket is chipped and missing a small piece at the bottom of the spine. Jacket price has been inked-over. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Binding is still bright and shiny. No owner's name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Not a Book Club edition. From the Dust Jacket: "For fourteen years Miss Mackenzie lived among the Bantu tribes of West Africa. In this book she shows the African as he really is and transcribes some strange and fascinating sayings about beauty, death, marriage, the things of laughter, and the things of God that are current in that twilit forest world. The result is an interpretation of the native mind and soul comparable in its vividness and beauty to [Lafcadio] Hearn's studies of the Japanese." From the preface: "The material of these essays was gathered during a sojourn of many years in the Southern Cameroon, West Africa." Bound in the… Read More

Boston And New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardback. Good to very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 270 pages; Description: x p. , 1 l. , 270 p. 19 cm. Subjects: Missions --Cameroon. Cameroon --Social life and customs. Reprinted in part from various periodicals.

Houghton Mifflin, 1924-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Hardcover with the scarce DJ and related ephemera, First Edition 1924 Houghton Mifflin Company 270 pages. Very Good+, in a Good+ DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to brown and orange decorative cloth boards with Orange spine titles - one tiny bumped corner. Moderate shelf/edge wear, soiling and stains (rear panel and spine) to original unclipped DJ - now in mylar. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. Only flaw is the title page and the page facing it are darkened by a long and detailed news article/obituary pertaining to the author laid in. From the front panel of the DJ: For fourteen years Miss Mackenzie lived among the Bantu tribes of West Africa. In this book she shows the African as he really is and transcribes some of the strange and fascinating sayings about beauty, death, marriage, the things of laughter, and the things of God that are current in that twilit forest world. The result is an… Read More