In the Shadow of the Bush
by Talbot, P. Amaury
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/None
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
NY: George H. Doran, 1912. 1st US. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover, original green cloth with mounted illustration on cover as issued, gilt title lettering on spine and front cover. 500 pages, colored frontis of Ekoi Girl in Fatting House costume, numerous illustrations from photos, folding drawing of wall decoration, folding map colored in outline in rear in excellent condition. The author traveled extensively in the Oban District of Southern Nigeria and part of the Cameroons to study the Ekoi people as well as the natural history of the area in 1907. Included are chapters on religion, Egbo, Jujus, position of women, birth customs, divination, witchcraft, funeral ceremonies, war, government, folk-lore, etc, with detailed appendices on taboos, clubs, anthropometrics, orthography, grammar, vocabularies, botany, zoology, mineralogy, meteorology, geography. Book is ex-lib with only envelope and stickers to front fly leaf. Spine shows edgewear, fraying to top and bottom. Rubbing to pastedown on cover. Otherwise the book is tight and clean. Record # 380864
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- Seller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 380864
- Title
- In the Shadow of the Bush
- Author
- Talbot, P. Amaury
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st US
- Publisher
- George H. Doran
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- Countries, Africa, , .
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...