Postcolonial Literature from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); sage green cloth, with titles stamped in orange on spine and front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; [x],287,[7]pp. Pictorial bookplate to front pastedown, hint of dustiness to cloth, else a clean, Near Fine copy, with the topstain bright and unfaded. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.95), lightly edgeworn, with… Read more about this item

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xlviii,272pp. Faint paperclip impression to upper margin of four leaves, else Near Fine. Dustjacket shows some trivial surface wear, mild creasing at crown, with a faint crease to upper front flap, and original price sticker to… Read more about this item

London: Andre Deutsch, 1967. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.25cm); rose-colored imitation cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-300,[4]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, front board corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with some faint finger-soil to right edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 25s. net), lightly edgeworn, with a bit of yellowing to… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1969, 1978. First Editions. First Printings. Two octavo volumes (23.5cm); brown and black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt and silver on spines; dustjackets; xviii,380,[2]; xvi,473,[5]pp. Both volumes generously inscribed by the author to J. Wayne Fredericks, the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1961-67). Vol.1 reads: "Wayne / With… Read more about this item

Kingston, Jamaica: Savacou Journal, 1974. First Edition. Quarto (24cm.); pictorial card wrappers by Aubrey Williams; 134pp.; illus. Light wear, corners bumped, gentle sunning to spine, with a faint diagonal crease to upper right corner of front wrapper; Very Good+. Double issue of the Caribbean literary journal Savacou, "A Journal of the Caribbean Artists Movement." Includes contributions by James Berry… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-309,[3]pp. Faint foxing to cloth, text edges, and endpapers, else clean internally; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 15s net), gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn and dust-soiled, with two tiny tears and creases; Very Good+. The Black South African… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (20.25cm); glossy pictorial wrappers; [x],54,[6]pp. Inscribed by the author in March, 1985 on the preliminary blank. Pencil underlining throughout the text, else sharp; Very Good+. Poems written by Walcott during a summer in Trinidad, centered around the relationship of poetry to painting, midsummer in the tropics,… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.75cm); teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],151,[1]pp. Gentle sunning to spine, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.95), with modest external wear, several small tears and creases (two of them tape mended on verso), and a few faint spots of soil… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1964. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); blue-gray paper and green cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; blue topstain; dustjacket; x,85,[1]pp. Upper board edges gently sunned, with topstain a bit dulled; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.00), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with some mild dustiness to rear panel,… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First American Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, a review copy, with the publisher's original publicity photo of the author laid in. Octavo (21.5cm); chickpea yellow cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [2],viii,83,[3]pp. Hint of foxing to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $8.95), with light… Read more about this item

London: Frank Cass & Co, 1968. Second impression (first published 1950). Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 152pp. Ownership markings; single ink annotation to margin of first page of text; Very Good. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped lightly worn and faded; Very Good. A sound a serviceable reading copy.

Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1980. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Hardcover; dustjacket; 223pp. Fine, tight, unmarked copy in bright original dustwrapper, Near Fine.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1984. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 152pp. Fine, in bright dustwrapper with two tiny nicks at spine ends and a brief closed tear at upper margin of front panel, Very Good or better. Bilingual text (French & English); translated, with Introduction and Commentary, by Gregson Davis.

London: Penguin Education, 1973. First Edition. First impression. No cloth edition was issued. Square octavo (22cm); pictorial wrappers; 128pp; illus. Mild external wear and soil; small splash-stain to first two leaves; Very Good. An exploration, aimed at secondary-school readers, of the effects of colonialism on the African continent.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973. First Edition. First printing. Small, slim octavo (20cm). Publisher's green cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 88pp. Cloth mildly sunned at upper board edges; jacket price-clipped; ownership signature to front endpaper (Latin American translator and editor Roberto Márquez); Very Good or better in a Very Good dustwrapper. Bilingual edition, with… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. First impression. Octavo; cloth hardcover, dustjacket; 208pp. Fine, unmarked copy in a barely edge-rubbed dustwrapper.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth-backed boards (hardcover); 229pp. Fine and unmarked, in unclipped dustwrapper (priced $24.00 on front flap), barely edge-rubbed and with a slight crease at base of front flap, still very Near Fine.

Garden City: Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1973. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (20.75cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [7],8-92,[4]pp. Trivial wear and dustiness to wrappers, hint of sunning to spine; Near Fine. Collection of early poetry by the celebrated Nigerian author, comprised of the 23 poems written for the Nigerian release of Beware, Soul Brother… Read more about this item

Austin: African and Afro-American Studies & Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 1975. First Edition. Oblong octavo (15cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 36pp; parallel text in English and Chinese. Mild creasing along the spine fold, tiny stain to lower left corner of rear wrapper; Very Good+ to Near Fine. South African Trotskyist and anti-apartheid activist's fifth book, a… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. First Paperback Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.75cm); pictorial card wrappers; [iv],v-xii,168pp. Some trivial surface wear, hint of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Collection of five long essays by the Nigerian Nobel Laureate, centered around the theme of how the African world perceives itself as a cultural entity.