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Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap
by Verta Mae
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1972. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. The 1972 stated 1st edition of this uncommon "domestic rap" on the role of "black people"- housekeeping though the years. Solid and VG+ (very light staining along the bottom-edges) in a bright, VG dustjacket, with light chipping along the spine ends and the tips, and very mild soiling and creasing to the panel edges. Octavo, 156 pgs. Written through the lens of an empowered, Sixties sensibility, includes chapter headings such as "Freedom is better than slavery and i know cause i done seed both sides", "Massas and lawn Moors", "Nobody knows the master better than the servant", "House niggers ain't shit", "The Servants Done Riz!", "Mammy, Aunt Jemima & Uncle Ben, the Gold Dust twins and the rest of the family", etc.
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- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19614
- Title
- Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap
- Author
- Verta Mae
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- rare African-American, rare histories of domestic service, rare Sixties histories
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-American;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- VG
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- Cloth
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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....
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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