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This Island Now
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London: Faber & Faber, (1966). First edition. Inscription/name on endpaper, slight lean to spine, else very good in a used dust jacket.. more information
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A Night of Their Own
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London: Faber & Faber, (1965). First edition. Tiny chip to border of last page, not affecting text, else near fine in a very good, edge-worn, price-clipped dust jacket.. more information
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A Wreath for Udomo
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New York: Knopf, 1956. First American edition. Very good in a somewhat spine-darkened dust jacket.. more information
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Anthills of the Savannah
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London: Heinemann, (1987). First edition. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else fine in a price-clipped dust jacket.. more information
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Palaver. Modern African Writings
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New York: Thomas Nelson, (1970). First edition. A broad ranging anthology with selections by well known African writers. Fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket, with a few edge-tears.. more information
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Sardines
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(Saint Paul): Graywolf Press, (1992). Trade paperback format, pp. 263. Light shelf wear, light creasing at corners of covers, else very good. . more information
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Sweet and Sour Milk
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(Saint Paul): Graywolf Press, (1992). , 1992 Trade paperback format, pp. 242. Light shelf wear, else near fine. . more information
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Neo-African Literature. A History of Black Writing
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New York: Grove, (1969). First edition. Very good in a price-clipped dust jacket.. more information
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The Sacred Night
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London: Quartet, (1985). First English edition. Fine in dust jacket.. more information
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Ambiguous Adventure
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New York: Walker, (1963). First American edition. Originally published under the title, L'Aventure Ambiguë. A novel of Modern Africa, and winner of the the Grand Prix Littiraire d'Afrique Noire in 1962. Near fine in dust jacket showing some toning to edges and spine, slight fade to red lettering of author's name on spine, and a few small closed nicks at the spine ends, else near fine.. more information
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Search Sweet Country
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London: Heinemann, 1986. First edition. 24 cm x 16 cm, green boards, pp. 256. Laing was born in Kumasi, Ghana. Page edges tanned as usual, remainder mark to bottom edge, else fine in dust jacket.. more information
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Search Sweet Country
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London: Heinemann, 1986. First edition. Remainder mark to bottom edge, pages a bit yellowed, else very good in dust jacket.. more information
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Coming to Birth
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London: Heinemann, (1986). First edition. "Review copy" rubber-stamped on endpaper. Sinclair Prize Winner, 1986. Fine in dust jacket.. more information
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Wand of Noble Wood
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London: Hutchinson, (1961). First edition. Small octavo, black boards, pp. 208. The first novel by this Nigerian writer. Previous owner's inscription reads. "Madeline Currie, July 31/63, Lagos Nigeria". Browning and foxing to endpapers, spine a bit cocked, covers are slightly soiled, otherwise good, in an about very good dust jacket with some foxing. . more information
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Locusts
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Greenfield Center: The Greenfield Review (Press), (1976). First edition. Stapled wrappers, 32pp. Poetry. Spine sunned, price has been inked-out on rear cover, else very good. .. more information
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Astonishing the Gods
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(London): Phoenix House, (1995). First edition. Signed by Okri. Fine in dust jacket.. more information
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Mental Fight
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London: Phoenix House, (1999). First edition. 18.5 cm x 12.5 cm, dark purple boards, pp. 68. "An Anti-Spell for the 21st Century". Poetry. Fine in dust jacket.. more information
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Dangerous Love
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London: Phoenix House, (1996). First edition. Fine in dust jacket.. more information
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Stars of the New Curfew
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(New York): Viking, (1989). First American edition. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else near fine in dust jacket.. more information
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New Voices of the Commonwealth
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(London): Evans Brothers Limited, (1968). First edition. 8vo., ochre boards, pp. 208. Early book appearance of Ondaatje, preceeding his first solo book of poems. Signed by Michael Ondaatje at one of two poems contributed. Also signed by George Bowering at his contribution, "Moon Shadow". Anthology with representative prose and poetry from Australia, Canada, [Milton Acorn, Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Jay MacPherson, Tom Marshall, John Newlove, Alden Nowlan, David Wevill], Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Ceylon [Michael Ondaatje], Cyprus, Gambia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Maylasia & Singapore, Malta, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rhodesia, Sierra Leone, South Africans within the Commonwealth, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom [Seamus Heaney], & Zambia. Near fine in dj, with a small tear to edge of front panel, light edge wear, some lamination wrinkling and a faint internal stain at the foot of the dj. . more information
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Secret Society
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London: Sattelite, (1978). First English edition. Near fine in dust jacket.. more information
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The Old Man and the Medal
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(London): Heinemann, (1967). First edition. Near fine in a price-clipped dust jacket.. more information
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Mandela's Earth and Other Poems
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New York : Random House, (1988). First American edition. Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature [1986]. Tidy ink name on paste-down, else fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket (with slight surface wear).. more information
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The World of "Mestre" Tamoda
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(London): Readers International, (1988). First English edition, hardcover issue. Fine in dust jacket.. more information
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