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GOOD COMPANY: A Study of Nyakyusa Age-Villages
by MONICA WILSON
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE, 1951 Green cloth boards with gilt blocked titles, 220 x 145 mm approx. x + 278 pp. Fold out frontis line map + 2 other such + 16 b/w photo plates all as called for. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/VG (Book- moderate general shelf wear to cloth - colour rubbing only, mild bumps to bottom corners, discreet original bookseller label and previous owner armorial book plate to front paste down. Dust Jacket - rubbed to extremities with some loss principally to head and tail of spine, price clipped, now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve).
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130565
- Title
- GOOD COMPANY: A Study of Nyakyusa Age-Villages
- Author
- MONICA WILSON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Good Company, Monica Wilson, Southern Tanganyika, Nyakyusa Peoples, African Studies, Witchcraft, Village Life,
Terms of Sale
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- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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