London / Amherst: Sinclair Browne / University of Massachusetts, 1983. Octavo, brown boards. pp 336. Fine copy, no owner marks. Pink dust jacket has spine sunning, else fine. 086300007X

New York: Walker, 1966. Black boards. pp 127. Small tan spot to fore edges; page edges tanned; else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket.

London: Phoenix House, 1995. Brown boards. Fine copy. White dust jacket has light dust soiling, else fine. A modern fable by this Booker Prize-winning Nigerian author.

New York: Grove Press, 1985. Card covers. pp x, 142 + plates. Fine copy. Publisher's Modern Dramatists series. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; 12mo

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1930. Card covers, orange endleaves. pp 207, [3]. A book in the BoniBooks series. Page edges yellowed, mild rubbing to spine folds, owner name at front, a little leaned, VG clean and unworn copy. Translated from the French by Adele Szold Seltzer. Maran was the first black man to win the Prix Goncourt, for this novel, in 1921, Set in French Equatorial Africa. ; 12mo

New York: Random House, c2016. Fourth printing. Fine in fine jacket. First novel by this immigrant to the USA from Cameroon. ; Octavo

Toronto: Goathair Press, 1974. pp [36], unpaged, stapled in black and white card covers. Copy for review with sheet laid in. Very small abrasion to upper outer corner of front cover, else fine. First book, a collection of poetry by this South Afican exile, who George Elliott Clarke reckons was the first Africa-born literary author to publish in Canada. Scarce book. Note: light parcel, any default postage rate will be reduced.

Toronto: Goathair Press, 1974. pp [36], unpaged, stapled in black and white card covers. Fine copy. First book, a collection of poetry by this South Afican exile, who George Elliott Clarke reckons was the first Africa-born literary author to publish in Canada. Scarce book. Note: light parcel, any default postage rate will be reduced.

Erin, ON: Press Porcépic, 1974. Paper issue in red card covers, illustrated endpapers. pp 227, [13]. Illustrated with photos.Spiine lightly darkened, else fine. Author is a Haitian immigrant to Quebec.; Octavo

London: Collins, 1989. Red boards. Fine copy. Jacket spine very lightly sunned, else fine. A novel of young South Africans' resistance to apartheid by a South African author.

New York: Braziller, 1983. Blue-green cloth. Fine copy. Price clipped black jacket has one edge nick, else fine. A novel set in Nigeria by this acclaimed Nigerian / British writer, she made the 1983 Granta list of best young UK writers.; Octavo

London: Satellite Books, 1979. Red boards. Fine copy, no owner names. Black dust jacket has a small corner crease to front flap, some surface rubbing, else fine. The fourth novel, a story about a psychopathic sex-killer, by this Nigeria-born author. 0905186729

New York: Readers International, 1986. Blue boards. Text paper yellowed, as always, else fine. Dust jacket has faded spine, creased tear to upper inner corner of front panel, VG otherwise. Won the 1984 NOMA Award. South African author.

London: Collins, 1989. Brown boards. Ink price and short notation at front, else fine in fine, price-clippped jacket. A novel of a Jamaican emigrant to London, the 10th novel of this Nigeria-born author who also emigrated to London.

London & New York: Readers International, 1988. Black boards. Review copy with slip laid in. Text paper tanned, as always, else fine. Dust jacket has slight spine sunning, else fine. Short stories of Johanessburg's Indian community by this South Arican writer.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1969. Small abrasion to upper edge of rear free endpaper, else fine. Orange price-clipped jacket has nicks to tips of faded spine; fading to inner and upper margins of front panel; VG o/w. Second novel of this Malawi author.

London, Ibadan, Nairobi: Oxford University Press, 1967. Small octavo, card covers. pp [2], (3), [1], 90, [2]. Ink name and date at front, VG+ clean uncreased copy otherwise. A play. Soyinka won the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature.

London: Heinemann, 1966. Card covers. pp 152. Yellowing and foxing to page edges, a little leaned, corner crease to rear cover, VG otherwise. African Writers Series 19. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.; 12mo

London: Macmillan, 1968. Octavo, brown boards. pp 209, (5). Text paper lightly toned, yellowing to page edges, very small bump to upper outer corners of covers, else a fine copy, no owner names. Thin black dust jacket has mild rubbing to spine tips and outer corners; light yellowing and sunning to the spine lettering; soft crease to upper front panel; near fine otherwise, flap price intact. Discusses Wole Soyinka, John Pepper Clark, Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola, Cyprian Ekwensi, T.M. Aluko, Elechi Amadi, Nkem Nwankwo, Flora Nwapa, Onuora Nzekwu, and Gabriel Oara.