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THE OPEN SORE OF A CONTINENT: a personal narrative of the Nigerian crisis
Edition: First printing
New York: Oxford, 1996. Octavo, cloth & boards. Review copy for Canada, with large rubber stamp on title page. Review sheets laid in. Ink name & date at front, else fine in fine jacket.
Book ID: 38825More details Price: USD $18.50 USD $16.65 -
THE PINEAPPLE CHILD and other tales from Ashanti (proof copy)
Edition: First printing
London: Deutsch, 1969. Uncorrected proo in pale grey card covers. Very light spine yellowing; light yellowing and foxing to page edges; else fine. Good illustrations. Folk tales from Ghana.
Book ID: 41459More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
THE ROAD
Edition: First printing
London / Ibadan: Oxford, 1965. pp (6), 101, [3]. Ink name and sticker scar to front free endpaper, else a fine copy of this play by the 1986 Nobel Laureate. A Three Crowns paperback.
Book ID: 38827More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
THE WHALE CALLER: a novel
Edition: First Canadian printing
Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2005. Octavo, card covers (not issued in hardcover). Ink name at front, else fine. A novel of homosexual love set in South Africa by this noted South African author.
Book ID: 38828More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
THE WORLD OF "MESTRE" TAMODA...translated by Annella McDermott
Edition: First edition in English
New York: Readers International, 1988. Yellow boards. Text paper yellowed, as always, else fine. Jacket spine slightly sunned, else fine. A novel by one of the leaders of the resistance to Portuguese rule of Angola.
Book ID: 41423More details Price: USD $18.00 USD $16.20 -
THREE PLAYS: Song of a Goat, The Masquerade, The Ratt
Edition: Firsr printing
London: Oxford, 1964. 12mo, card covers. Spine very lightly sunned, a little rubbing to spine folds, VG+ uncreased copy otherwise, no owner names. Erratum slip tipped in. Nigerian author.
Book ID: 41414More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
VOICES IN THE WHIRLWIND and other essays
Edition: First printing
New York: Hill and Wang, 1972. Green cloth. pp (6), 215. Sunning to extreme edges of covers, yellowing to page edges, else fine in very nearly fine jacket. South African writer resident in the USA.
Book ID: 41398More details Price: USD $22.00 USD $19.80 -
WHY GOATS SMELL BAD and Other Stories from Benin. Translated and Retold by Raouf Mama. Illustrated by Imna Arroyo.
Edition: First printing
North Haven, CT: Linnet Books, 1998. Inscribed by Author; Octavo, black cloth. (xx), 138 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket, and INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. With promotional sheet laid in giving a capsule author biography. "Twenty tales from the Republic of Benin give a first-hand look at the life beliefs of the Fon, a West African people. As the former Kingdom of Dahomey, Benin was a jumping-off point for the slave trade of the seventeenth century. Remnants of its culture, therefore, are today the heritage of man y black people in the United States, Brazil, Haiti, Cuba, and other Caribbean countries." - jacket.; Signed by Author 0208024697
Book ID: 18755More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
WOLE SOYINKA.
Edition: First Edition
New York: Twayne, 1973. Maroon cloth, maroon endpapers. 183 pp. Fine copy. Dust jacket has some wear to spine tips; light tanning; VG otherwise. A study of this important Nigerian author, number 256 in Twayne's World Authors Series.
Book ID: 13829More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10