Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa
by Ngugi wa Thiongo
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good book; very good dust jacket, lightly scuffed with worn edges
- ISBN 10
- 0198183909
- ISBN 13
- 9780198183907
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, [vii], iv, [iii], 139, [3] pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, lightly scuffed with worn edges. Author-inscribed on front free endpaper.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2173
- Title
- Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams
- Author
- Ngugi wa Thiongo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, octavo, black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, [vii], iv, [iii], 139, [3] pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good book; very good dust jacket, lightly scuffed with worn edges
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0198183909
- ISBN 13
- 9780198183907
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Ngugi
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