Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun, Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man
by Bradford, Roark
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A. B. Walker. 12mo. 264 pages. Hardcover bound in black quarter cloth with yellow and black patterned paper-covered boards. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. Corners bumped. Inner hinges secure. Lacks the dust jacket, but the front flyleaf of the jacket is laid in loosely. The copyright dates is 1928 but the code on the copyright page of "A-E" denotes a January, 1930 printing. Stated twelfth printing on the copyright page. Written in rural "Negro dialect", even though Bradford was white. Bradford (1896-1948) was born in Tennessee and died in Louisiana.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051412
- Title
- Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun, Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man
- Author
- Bradford, Roark
- Illustrator
- A. B. Walker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1930; 1928; Roark Bradford; Literature; Fiction; Novel; African-American; Negro Dialect; Southern Literature.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction; African-American; Southern Literature;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.