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Fragments.
by ARMAH, Ayi Kwei
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), 287 pages. Publisher's light green cloth lettered in orange on the spine & upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket.
Margins slightly sunned, bottom corners lightly bruised, two leaves roughly opened causing a small loss & short tear in the bottom margin (text unaffected), a very good or better copy in moderately soiled & foxed dust jacket with light edge wear (including a couple ot tears without loss), browned at the spine, with small stain at the top (mostly evident on the verso), still about very good.
The Ghanaian author's second novel which "takes its major theme from the shattered spiritual vision versus the grotesque material expectations of Africa today." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1865
- Title
- Fragments.
- Author
- ARMAH, Ayi Kwei
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- 1970
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Africa, Literature, Fiction, Ayi Kwei Armah, Customs, Culture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature, Fiction, Poetry; Culture, Customs, Folklore; Africa;
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Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
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- Cloth
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- Leaves
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Sunned
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