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12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States
by Richard Wright
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good, shelf wear, rear board corner stain, bruised spine; fair dust jacket, spine chipped, edges worn and creased, cover ti
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover [quarto] cream cloth boards, red-framed spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 151 pp. Very Good, shelf wear, rear board corner stain, bruised spine; fair dust jacket, spine chipped, edges worn and creased, cover title section displaced, rear cover section displaced, fairly worn. Photo direction by Edwin Rosskam. First Edition of Wright's scarce treatise on the history of Black people in the United States, illustrated profusely with black and white photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1149
- Title
- 12 Million Black Voices
- Author
- Richard Wright
- Illustrator
- Photo direction by Edwin Rosskam
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover [quarto] cream cloth boards, red-framed spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 151 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, shelf wear, rear board corner stain, bruised spine; fair dust jacket, spine chipped, edges worn and creased, cover ti
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
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Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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