An incredible thriller that kept me up reading. This is the book people will be talking about in 2021. Intense. Wickedly smart. A stunning debut from a gifted author.
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An incredible thriller that kept me up reading. This is the book people will be talking about in 2021. Intense. Wickedly smart. A stunning debut from a gifted author.
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Very Good. Full leather binding. Contemporary boards, rebacked in later leather spine. xvi, 282 p., frontis. Hardcover. Good binding. Bumping to corners. Clean, unmarked pages. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 31484.
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Very Good. Frontis, xvi, 282p. plus 10 pages of publisher's advertisements (8 of which are dated 1840). Original dark green cloth. 23cm. Modest bubbling of cover cloth. Base of backstrip reglued. Minor splitting along joints. Contents sound. Publishers slip tipped to endpaper ("This day is published in imperial quarto, 25 s. A Series of Picturesque Views on the River Niger...by Commander Wm. Allen...").
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8vo. 23cm, The First Edition, xvi, 282, 12p., (publisher ads, ), with 2 engraved plates, original blind decorated plumb cloth, gilt spine titles, some foxing, upper hinge repaired, top and bottom spine edges chipped, very good condition. (tr) ~ An English evangelical Quaker minister describes a tour through the West Indies (Santa Cruz, Saint Thomas, Antigua, Dominica, Jamaica, Cuba) in 1839/40 in letters addressed to Kentucky. The question of slavery is prominent in the letters slavery being abolished in the British West Indies in 1833. The two engravings are views of Jamaica-Sligoville and Brownstown.