Samboe, or, The African Boy
by Hedge, Mary Ann
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Harvey and Darton. Fair with no dust jacket. 1823. First. Hardback. Pale grey marbled boards (no d/jkt) very worn and rubbed. Red leather spine very worn partly missing. Endpapers and title page missing; but main text complete. Ownership marks on front pastedown. Written during th`e last years of slavery this is very sympathetic to the plight of the luckless Africans. ; 12mo (3 1/2" x 5 1/2"); 175 + Notes pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46244
- Title
- Samboe, or, The African Boy
- Author
- Hedge, Mary Ann
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harvey and Darton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1823
- Keywords
- colonialism, wilberforce, africa, british empire
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Walden Books
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London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Marbled boards
- ...