The Palm-Wine Drinkard And His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town by Tutuola, Amos - 1953

New York:: Grove Press,, (1982.). Good only (prev owner's name, toning to the pages.). Trade paperback. A novel originally published in 1953, perhaps the best known work by this important Nigerian writer. Cover praise from Dylan Thomas who called it a 'brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching story.' 130 pp.

New York, NY Grove Press: Evergreen, 1953. Paperback First Edition Thus [1953], Seventeenth Printing (1978). Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of careful use: very slight spine lean; moderate wear to the extremities; a hint of a crease near the lower corner of the rear panel; faint foxing to the inside of the front cover and to the outside edges; a price has been neatly removed from both panels; the pages have tanned fairly heavily, due to aging; mild rubbing and faint overall soiling to wrapper covers; a former owner's name at the top edge of the text block and the title page; the binding remains secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Shows moderate wear, but remains clean, sturdy, presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches). 130 pages. Language: English. Weight: 5 ounces. Wrapper covers designed in orange, black and brown. E-328. First Edition… Read More

New York, NY: Grove Press / Black Cat, January 1984. First Thus. Hardcover . Very Good. First Black Cat mass market edtion. Cover design by David Reau Johnson. Back cover photo of Amos Tutuola by Caroline Forbes. Marginal darkening of interior pages. Heavy foxing/dust staining. [130 pages]

Random House USA Inc, 1988-11-15. Hardcover. Good.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Small, thin 8vo. Pp. 159. Bound in taupe cloth with lettering stamped in red on front cover and spine. Very slight toning to prelims, else Fine in a dust jacket with chips at head and tail of spine and top right fore-edge. Only published in England, the collection presents 18 short stories. A worthy copy, despite detracting qualities to dust jacket. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival protector.

Faber and Faber, 1952-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Tears to jacket with loss. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Pages unmarked. 125 p., 21 cm. <br> The Palm Wine Drinkard, in full The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town, novel by Amos Tutuola, published in 1952 and since translated into many languages. Written in the English of the Yoruba oral tradition, the novel was the first Nigerian book to achieve international fame. The story is a classic quest tale in which the hero, a lazy boy who likes to spend his days drinking palm wine, gains wisdom, confronts death, and overcomes many perils in the course of his journey. It has thematic links to The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, a work that profoundly influenced many Nigerian writers.

London: Faber & Faber Ltd. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Eps darkened. 1952. First Edition. Orange hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 125pp. .