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Shadow of the Plantation
by Johnson, Charles S
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo (6.25"x8.75"). 0212pp + index. Black cloth covered boards. Corners bumped. Shelfwear. Fading to board edges and in particular the spine. Missing front free endpaper. 3" closed tear to interior edge of title page. Textblock toned. Light gouging to top of text block. Foredge of text block bumped. Foxing to first two pages as well as rear endpapers. Top fore-edge of text block bumped. Upper hinge starting, lower hinge cracked at p214. Charles S. Johnson was the first African American president of Fisk University. Inscribed by author on title page, "To Howard Kester, with esteem, Charles S. Johnson." Howard Kester was a Southern preacher, organizer and union activist. Kester noted on front endpaper "Return to Howard Kester Black Mountain, N.C." Boards protected in a semi-rigid mylar sleeve.
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- Bookseller
- Downtown Books & News
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3990
- Title
- Shadow of the Plantation
- Author
- Johnson, Charles S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1934
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- Inscribed
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- Cloth
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Text Block
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- Spine
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Title Page
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