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The Brave African Huntress.
by TUTUOLA, Amos
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Castlethorpe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and tooled in gilt on red ground. With dust jacket.
With 8 full-page illustrations by Ben Enwonwu. Neat ink ownership inscription on front pastedown ("W. Taylor, June 1960"). Trivial bump to ends of front joint and one corner, edges faintly foxed with
a few marks, cloth clean and bright. A very good copy indeed in like dustwrapper, spine darkened with a few nicks to head, shallow chip to foot of rear panel, a few marks to front panel, one corner creased, not price-clipped, very bright.
First edition, first impression. Tutuola, the celebrated author of The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952), was "among the earliest Nigerian fictional writers in English... who re-envisioned classic themes of African, particularly West African, storytelling and published them from the mid-twentieth century onwards in a written English that remains uniquely his" (Nyamnjoh).
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- Bookseller
- Butler Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41417
- Title
- The Brave African Huntress.
- Author
- TUTUOLA, Amos
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Ben Enwonwu.
- Format/Binding
- Original green cloth, spine lettered and tooled in gilt on red ground. With dust jacket.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, 1958
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- Octavo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- AMOS TUTUOLA, THE BRAVE AFRICAN HUNTRESS, Ben EnwonwuLITERATURE,
Terms of Sale
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Butler Rare Books
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Castlethorpe, Buckinghamshire
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