The Dark Child
by Camara Laye
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, covers soiled
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. First edition, second printing. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, embossed gilt spine titles, yellow end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 188 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, covers soiled.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1688
- Title
- The Dark Child
- Author
- Camara Laye
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, embossed gilt spine titles, yellow end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 188 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, covers soiled
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, second printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Camara Laye
Terms of Sale
Better Read Than Dead
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
Biblio member since 2023
Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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....