The Religion of Lower Races, Edwin W. Smith — 1st Edition

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The Religion of Lower Races, Edwin W. Smith — 1st Edition

Name: The Religion of Lower Races, Edwin W. Smith — 1st Edition
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Publication: New York, The Macmillan Company, 1923

Formatting: 8vo, pp. 82.

Condition Report: Very Good. The binding remains tight and structurally sound, with the original dark green cloth boards showing only minor rubbing to the extremities and slight bumping to the corners. Crucially, the gilt lettering on the spine remains remarkably bright and unoxidised. Internally, the pages are clean and free from any significant foxing or extraneous markings, though the text block edges exhibit the typical, even age-toning expected of a volume from this period. A well-preserved, solid copy, lacking the dust jacket.

Catalogue Note: First Edition. This volume is part of 'The World's Living Religions' series, edited by Frank Knight Sanders and Harlan Page Beach. Authored by Edwin W. Smith, a prominent missionary and anthropologist, the work offers a detailed ethnographic and theological examination of the Bantu peoples of Southern Africa.

Original 1923 cloth-bound copies of this foundational text are highly scarce on the open market, with contemporary availability almost entirely restricted to modern print-on-demand facsimiles.

The book's provenance is standard for an antiquarian volume, retaining some previous ownership identifiers to the front endpaper, but remaining free from significant bookplates or presentation inscriptions.

Published in 1923, The Religion of Lower Races offers an early twentieth-century anthropological and theological perspective on the spiritual life of the African Bantu peoples. Written by Edwin W. Smith, a notable linguist and missionary, the book provides a historically contextualised look into traditional African belief systems, their rituals, and their interaction with arriving Christian missions.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: Edwin W. Smith

Book Publisher: The Macmillan Company

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Antiquarian

Genre: Religion & Spirituality

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 82

Book Publication Year: 1923

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: The World's Living Religions

Country/region of manufacture: New York, United States

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