Black Cameos
by Kennedy, R. Emmet
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. Transcriptions of songs and stories from Louisiana, mostly in dialect; a great source for studying the literature and music derived from African and slave culture. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition. Yellow decorative cloth binding with black and red. Clean text; 210 pages; decorative endpapers. great black-and-white illustrations by Edward Tinker. Lacking the dustjacket. Spine is a bit darkened and rubbed. Penciled signature and gift inscription on the front endpapers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Edward Larocque Tinker.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003070
- Title
- Black Cameos
- Author
- Kennedy, R. Emmet
- Illustrator
- Edward Larocque Tinker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Albert & Charles Boni
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1924
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...