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Amulets & Dreams: War, Youth & Change in Africa
by Julia Maxted, Omar Badsha
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 1868882306
- ISBN 13
- 9781868882304
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Unisa Press, 2002. 161pp. Original black cloth with silver lettering to spine. This book is the second in South African History Online's social documentary photography series. Edite dby Omar Badsha. Photographs by Guy Tillim and Omar Badsha. Text by Julia Maxted. Forword by Amara Essy. Pages are clean (unamarked). Binding is tight and secure. Dent to lower right corners. Unclipped pictorial DJ is scuffed with several faint scrapes. Shelfwear to DJ (denting to corners, a few small bumps to edges, rubbing to extremities. Looks nice in added protective mylar covering. Nice reading copy of this increasingly scarce title. . First Thus. Oversized Hardcover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Mylared.
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- Bookseller
- after-words bookstore
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 141352
- Title
- Amulets & Dreams: War, Youth & Change in Africa
- Author
- Julia Maxted, Omar Badsha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 1868882306
- ISBN 13
- 9781868882304
- Publisher
- Unisa Press
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- Africa War History Photography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography; War; Africa;
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