Day Dawn in Africa; or, Progress of the Prot. Epis. Mission at Cape Palmas, West Africa de Scott, Anna M - 1856

Negro Universities Press, 1969. Buckram. Ex-library. Gently worn and scuffed boards. Else good. 314 pages. This item is at our location in Eugene, Oregon.

Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Reading copy only. Front hinge and spine cracked. Missing map at front. Rear endpage cut. Dampstained. (West Africa, Episcopal Church, Missions)

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

A lovely copy! (Our copy is bound in original royal blue boards, with the gilt-decorated palm tree design in center of the front cover.) Includes a fold-out map of the Cape Palmas region of west Africa -- later the nation of Liberia. (Couple of blank pages in the front matter have been excised, not affecting the title page, the frontispiece, or the text block.) [B-5.]

New.

New York: Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 12mo. [9], iv-viii, [3], 12-312, [6] pp. Original dark brown blindstamped publisher's cloth with palm tree design stamped in gold on the front board, gilt decoration and lettering on the spine, yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated by a frontispiece with tissue guard, eleven additional plates with tissue guards (back-to-back facing plates share one tissue guard), and a fold-out map of the Cape Palmas region. Ownership signature of W. W. Fowler, a missionary at the Santee Sioux Agency in the late 19th century, on the free front endpaper. An account of mid-19th century missionary work in the Cape Palmas region of western Africa in what is now Liberia. Near Very Good with gilt largely rubbed away on spine, rubbing and minor wear to boards, scattered foxing throughout, small chip to the bottom corner of one plate and the next leaf, and a few leaves with corner creases.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Protestant Episcopal Society, 1858 Cr.8vo. 314pp. 12 plates, folding map, appendix. Slight foxing as usual, an excellent copy of the first edition in the dark brown publisher's gilt decorated cloth. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[L]