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A Puritan in Voodoo-Land
by Edna Taft
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1938. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. A very good first edition [Zempel & Verkler] in a very good dust jacket. Red cloth boards with black Republic of Haiti motif and black title stamping on spine. map endpapers. Heavy foxing to fore edge and rear edge of dust jacket. Minor loss at foot of jacket. 407 pp. : illustrations . Octavo Driven By A Desire To See The Land Described In The Fragmentary Records Of An 18th Century New England Ancestor Who Transported Negroes From The African Slave Coast, This Modern Young Puritan Visits The Mysterious Voodoo Land Of Haiti. The First Time A Complete Picture Of This Magic Island Was Offered The Public. Here Is The Very Atmosphere Of The Exotic Black Republic, Its Beauty And Horror, Including The Strange, Prehistoric Monster That Is Found Only On The Island Of Haiti.---inside flap Table of contents: Winter wonderland Attending a dusky dance Port-au-Prince panorama East side, west side Bon Ton and blue bloods Bloody background Life among the lowly Sweet singers of Haiti Black looking-glass Window shopping Haunted ground Queen Anacaona's country Papa Legba wins
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1221
- Title
- A Puritan in Voodoo-Land
- Author
- Edna Taft
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Penn Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Haiti, magic, witchcraft, travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Geography & Travel;
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Uncommon Works
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Gridley, California
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