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Excerpts from Life turns man up and down : high life, useful advice, and mad English : African market literature selected and introduced by Kurt Thometz.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Misc Print Collection box 5 no 42
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Publishers and publishing--New York (State)--New York.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Nigerian literature (English).
- Popular literature--Nigeria.
- Popular literature.
- Nigeria--Literary collections.
- Nigeria.
- Chapbooks, Nigerian--Facsimiles.
- Chapbooks, Nigerian.
- Genre:
- Facsimiles.
- Literary collections.
- Book prospectuses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : [Pantheon Books], [2001]
- Summary:
- "A unique anthology that brings together examples of once wildly popular but long out-of-print African market literature never intended as art: irresistibly charming, brief literary anomalies in all genres, written for entertainment, instruction, and moral guidance."--Back cover.
- OCLC:
- 1300242176
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