Spear and Sceptre: Army, Police and Politics in Tropical Africa
by Lefever, Ernest W
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0815751990
- ISBN 13
- 9780815751991
- Seller
-
Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Washington: Brookings Institution, 1970. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Washington: Brookings Institution, 1970, first printing. 8vo., x+251pp., illustrated with tables. Brown cloth with gilt titles and gilt stamped cover design. some fox spotting along top edge of page block else fine, crisp, clean, bright, in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009181
- Title
- Spear and Sceptre: Army, Police and Politics in Tropical Africa
- Author
- Lefever, Ernest W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0815751990
- ISBN 13
- 9780815751991
- Publisher
- Brookings Institution
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
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The Wild Muse
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Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
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