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ASTONISHING THE GODS.
Edition: First printing
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.
Book ID: 14927More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
DOUBLE YOKE.
Edition: First US printing
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
Book ID: 5405More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
FEMALE TARGET
Edition: First printing
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
Book ID: 19643More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
KONGI'S HARVEST
Edition: First printing
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.
Book ID: 38819More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
LONG DRUMS AND CANNONS: Nigerian dramatists and novelists, 1952-1966
Edition: First printing
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.
Book ID: 33003More details Price: USD $55.00 USD $49.50 -
ONE MAN, ONE MATCHET
Edition: Firsr printing
London: Heinemann, 1964. The paperbound issue. VG+ clean, tight, uncreased copy, no owner names. African Writers Series 11. A novel of Yorubaland by a Nigerian author.
Book ID: 41413More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
OZIDI: a play
Edition: Firsr printing
London: Oxford, 1966. 16mo, card covers. Sticker shadow on front cover, VG clean and uncreased copy otherwise, no owner names. Nigerian author.
Book ID: 41415More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
THE INTERPRETERS
Edition: First US issue
New York: Africana Publishing Corporation, 1972. Octavo, green cloth. Front cover has a ding to top edge and a short abrasion near bottom, ink owner name at front, else fine. In a later issue jacket, non-pictorial, lime green, mentions the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature on front panel. Jacket has some sunning to spine and inner margin of front panel, else ine. Made from sheets of the 1972 UK second edition (first UK was in 1965).
Book ID: 38832More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
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 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 -
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