[publisher: George G Harrap, London] Hardcover First Edition First edition. Hardback, bound in the original green cloth with printed titling to spine and upper board. 25.5 × 17.5cm, 184pp. A delightful collection of stories and fables from Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania and other countries along the west coast of Africa, collected by American missionary William H Barker. Many stories feature the Spider-man Anansi, a clever but devious character who usually comes to a bad end. Most of the stories or fables have a clever moral, or tell how some aspect of the natural world came to be. The book has 24 illustrations (photographic frontispiece and 23 drawings). Condition: A good reading copy. The green cloth is mottled and rubbed to the spine ends. Light foxing to the prelims and a previous owner's name and date to ffep (the folklorist Francesca Claremont). The main body of text is in good readable condition. All plates are present as per the plate index, but one is neatly detached.
[Hythe, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1917]
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ISBN10: 1599152312, ISBN13: 9781599152318, [publisher: Yesterday's Classics] Softcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]
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[publisher: George G. Harrap & Company] Hardcover Very good, clean, tight condition in Ex-Library binding. Texts free of marks. Rubbing to one corner. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.
[Springfield, MO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1917]

Hardcover Illustr. London 1917. 184 pp. Original cloth.[#27505]
[Enköping, Sweden]

London George G. Harrap & Company 1917 First edition. publisher's gilt-lettered black cloth. Spine sunned; light use to cloth; tight and sound. 184 pp. With frontispiece and twenty-three drawings by Cecilia Sinclair. 8vo,

[publisher: George G. Harrap & Company, London] Hardcover First Edition 184 pp. With frontispiece and twenty-three drawings by Cecilia Sinclair. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered black cloth. First edition. Spine sunned; light use to cloth; tight and sound.
[Rochester, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1917]

[publisher: George G. Harrap] Hardcover First Edition Quarto. 184 pp. Illustrated with b/w plates. Ex Library. Black cloth, a little dusty and rubbed, corners knocked, gilt titles to front panel and spine. Library numbers to spine, softening of spine cloth, top and bottom. Occasional grubbiness to margin of inner pages. Paper residue to pastedown where, presumably a library sticker has been removed. Cancellation stamp to front free endpaper. No other library stamps. One plate loose. A very decent, solid copy of this title, evocatively illustrated by Sinclair.
[St Leonards On Sea, East Sussex, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1917]
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Collected and arranged by W. H. Barker, B.Sc. formerly Principal of the Government Institution, Accra and Cecilia Sinclair. With frontispiece and 23 drawings by Cecilia Sinclair. London: George G. Harrap, 1917 Roy.8vo. 184pp. 24 plates. Thirty-six 'Anansi' and other tales gathered in the Gold Coast. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's 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.[B] [GB]