ARBOUSSET Thomas (AMBROSE David & BRUTSCH Albert, eds.)Livre Rare Book
Missionary Story Sketches and Folk-Lore from Africa
1909réf. 80546Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham 1909. First Edition. First printing. Tan buckram with applied photo-pictorial front cover illustration; 346pp frontispiece and 8 inserted leaves of photographic plates halftones. Externally a little dull with rubbing and fading to pictorial onlay and spine lettering; front hinge thinly cracked but holding; else complete and sound; Good or better. Camphor 1865-1919 was an A.M.E. Church missionary and President of The College of West Africa in Monrovia from 1896 to 1907. This volume of vignettes from his time spent in Liberia and the Interior was published following his return to America in 1908. The excellent photographic illustrations are uncredited but presumably by the author. BLOCKSON COLLECTION 100. WORK p.102. Jennings and Graham unknown
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