A classic in African-Caribbean Studies with an introduction by Winston James, Columbia University, the author of numerous books, including "Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia".
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A classic in African-Caribbean Studies with an introduction by Winston James, Columbia University, the author of numerous books, including "Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia".
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Stated First Paperback Edition 1976, first printing with no additional printings noted, in fine/ like new condition. Issued with original solid (except for lettering) orange cover art. The pages of the text are clean, crisp, and unmarked. No creasing along the spine, and no bent page corners. The book is in excellent condition. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
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Acceptable. Washington, D.C. : The Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1942. 1st edition. 8vo. 119pp. Fair book. Ex-library. Spine cover missing. Boards scuffed and soiled; edges worn, corners bent and frayed. Front hinge cracked. Owner's name on front free endpage. Date due card on rear endpage but no other library markings evident. Binding cracked at p. 57. Underlining and marginalia in regular and colored pencil or ink. Handwritten bibliography on small slip of paper laid in. Pages aged with some spotting. [Bronze Booklet Number 8] Inquire if you need further information.
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Very Good. Previous owner's stamp to endpapers and title page otherwise unmarked. Small loss to head of spine. Tight binding. Slender hardcover no jacket. Please email for photos.
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Collectible; Very Good. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ERIC WILLIAMS IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION on front free endpaper. A clean, well-preserved copy to boot of the 1942 1st edition. Bright and VG+ in its decorative boards, with very light fraying at the spine crown. Octavo, 119 pgs., "Bronze Booklet No. 8" Signed by Author.
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Original publisher's binding with printed pictorial boards. Some bumping to corners and extremities of spine; toning to spine and rear board. Small ink correction to page 1, else internally fresh and unmarked. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "To Marguerite Steen from a great admirer. Eric Williams." Presented by the author and Howard University professor to Steen, a popular biographer and novelist of the time, whose critical epic of the slave trade, The Sun is my Undoing, had been released only one year before and by this time had become a best-seller in the UK and US. Williams would go on to become the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (1962-1981). Williams began his academic career at Oxford University, where he earned his PhD with a doctoral thesis titled The Economic Aspects of the Abolition of the Slave Trade and West Indian Slavery (later published as a book Capitalism and Slavery in 1944). Like the recipient of this copy, he spent much of his career making historical arguments for the inhumanity of slavery; yet his work also drew attention to the economic (rather than humanistic) factors that led to abolition. "In 1939, he went to the United States and joined the faculty of social and political science at the noted HBCU Howard University. While he was at Howard, Williams became associated with the Caribbean Commission that was established by the US, Great Britain, France, and the Netherlands in an effort to coordinate the economic development of the Caribbean" (Britannica). This work directly contributed both to the present book and to his future role as Prime Minister. Here, Williams encourages a stronger cultural bond between those of African and West Indian descent whose current geographical, economic, political, and personal situations were shaped by the slave trade. An important work with a key association.
