Timbuctoo
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], xi-xiii, [3], 1-278 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; navy topstain. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with fifteen plates (black and white photographs of the people and scenes of the Mali city). A travel narrative of Hall's time in the city near the Sahara, with several candid photographs of individuals from the different ethnic groups that populate Mali. In his epilogue, Leland Hall muses on the cultural differences between the industrialized West and the remote city of Timbuctoo. Hall asks his reader to consider if the busy, crowded cities and towns of modern society are actually better than a community that lives in harmony with nature, a community he calls stoic and patient in its trials and pursuits. The author also discusses some of the racial stereotypes that the West perpetuated about the African diaspora, and he calls these stereotypes empty and meaningless. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #000014081
A small spot of fading on the topstain; jacket with some sunning and moderate edge wear.
Price: $400.00