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African Clearings Hardcover - 1924

by Mackenzie, Jean Kenyon

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Near Fine condition in a Good+ dust jacket. The jacket is chipped and missing a small piece at the bottom of the spine. Jacket price has been inked-over. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Binding is still bright and shiny. No owner's name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Not a Book Club edition. From the Dust Jacket: "For fourteen years Miss Mackenzie lived among the Bantu tribes of West Africa. In this book she shows the African as he really is and transcribes some strange and fascinating sayings about beauty, death, marriage, the things of laughter, and the things of God that are current in that twilit forest world. The result is an interpretation of the native mind and soul comparable in its vividness and beauty to [Lafcadio] Hearn's studies of the Japanese." From the preface: "The material of these essays was gathered during a sojourn of many years in the Southern Cameroon, West Africa." Bound in the original brown cloth with decorations and lettering in orange. Complete with dust jacket.. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Good+ dust jacket. 8vo. x, [2], 270pp .
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  • Title African Clearings
  • Author Mackenzie, Jean Kenyon
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing of the First Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine condition
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
  • Date 1924
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 009772

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