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By: Achebe, Chinua
Price: $4.00 $3.20
Publisher: Fawcett Crest: 1988
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2287191
Reprint. Faint toning. 1988 Mass Market Paperback. 192 pp. Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the... View more info
By: Aniebo, I.N.C.
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: London: Heinemann: 1978
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2135212
First edition - a paperback original. Spine faded, seller bookplate inside. 1978 Trade Paperback. xiv, 242 pp. A novel chronicling two Igbo marriages, one traditional and one Christian. View more info
By: Beaver, Harold
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2204038
First edition. Top page ridge lightly foxed.Very Good. 1966 Hard Cover. 200 pp. The place is Kenya after independence. The chief African characters are a taxi-driver, an occasional politician, and a not highly qualified schoolteacher. These three boon companions, sharing a tremendous zest for oratory and beer, find a box of bank-notes in the forest--a treasure which disrupts their happy relationship. Meanwhile, a group of five Europeans face their own problems with some ... View more info
By: Bradford, Roark
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1931
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2283819
First edition. Jacket spine lightly toned, minor chip to jacket spine head, minor tear along top edge of rear jacket panel. 1931 Hard Cover. vi, 225 pp. With 25 woodcuts by J.J. Lankes. Novel based on the African-American folk hero of the same name. View more info
By: Clarke, John Henrik; Garvey, Amy Jacques
Price: $12.00 $9.60
Publisher: Vintage Books: 1974
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2288949
First printing. Pages lightly toned. 1974 Mass Market Paperback. xxxii, 496 pp. Among Black leaders, Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) was unique. His popularity was universal, his program for the return of African people to their motherland shook the foundations of three empires, all subsequent Black Power movements have owed a debt to his example, and his prophecy has been fulfilled in the independence that brought into being more than thirty African nations. This illuminating... View more info
By: Cleaver, Eldridge; Gismar, Maxwell
Price: $9.00 $7.20
Publisher: Delta: 1968
Edition: 6th Printing
Seller ID: 2266364
Sixth printing. Spine faintly creased, wrappers and page ridges faintly foxed. 1968 Trade Paperback. xv, 210 pp. Soul On Ice is a memoir and collection of essays by Eldridge Cleaver. Originally written in Folsom State Prison in 1965, and published three years later in 1968, it is Cleaver's best known writing and remains a seminal work in African-American literature.[1][2] The treatises were first printed in the nationally-circulated monthly Ramparts and became widely rea... View more info
By: Coetzee, J.M.
Price: $350.00 $280.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200388
First edition. Bookplate signed by author without inscription affixed to half-title page. Pages toned. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 180, [1] pp. 8vo. Coetzee received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is also a two-time recipient of the Booker Prize. Dying of cancer, Elizabeth Curren writes a testament to her lost daughter, now living in America. Her account describes her relationship with the tramp, Vercueil, who becomes her silen... View more info
By: Coetzee, J.M.
Price: $100.00 $80.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200997
First edition. Jacket flaps and top page ridge faintly foxed. 1986 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 157 pp. 8vo. Coetzee received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is also a two-time recipient of the Booker Prize. When Susan Barton is marooned on an island in the middle of the Atlantic she enters the world of two men. One is a mute negro called Friday; the other is Robinson Cruso. The Island is a society already at work. Its rules are simpl... View more info
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270886
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 231 pp. In this wise, beguiling, beautiful novel set in the era of the Civil War, an award-winning playwright and author paints a haunting portrait of a woman named Always, born a slave, and four generations of her African-American family. View more info
By: Cooper, J. California; Walker, Alice
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Wild Trees Press: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2201014
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. Faint crease on front wrapper along spine. 1984 Trade Paperback. ix, 124 pp. With a foreword by Alice Walker. In her acclaimed novels and short stories, J. California Cooper portrays the lives of African Americans, bringing to light the impact of history, social and economic hardship, and enduring cultural strengths on the experiences of individuals and families. The questions, discussion topics,... View more info
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: Seal Press: 1989
Seller ID: 2266447
Half-inch surface tear to spine-base, wrappers lightly rubbed, minor ink underlining (a few pages only), ink name on half-title page. 1989 Trade Paperback. 204 pp. Nervous Conditions is a novel by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, first published in the United Kingdom in 1988 by the Women's Press. The semi-autobiographical novel[1] focuses on the story of a Shona family in post-colonial Rhodesia during the 1960s. Nervous Conditions is the first of a proposed trilogy,... View more info
By: Djoleto, Amu
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Heinemann: 1968
Seller ID: 2208329
Light stain to spine-base, wrapper edges, and page ridges. 1968 Trade Paperback. 279 pp. Mensa endures his Ghanaian childhood under the shadow of successive tyrannical headmasters. In his maturity he struggles with the trials that village jealousies and his own family lie upon him.KEYWORDS: AMU DJOLETO STRANGE MAN LITERATURE FICTION AFRICAN View more info
By: Erman, Adolf; Simpson, William K.
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: Harper Torchbooks: 1966
Seller ID: 2288071
Spine lightly toned, two light red marks on page base. 1966 Trade Paperback. lxxii, 318, 10 pp. CONTENTS: Periodical Abbreviations; Introduction to the Torchbook Edition: The Study of Egyptian Literature, 1925-1965; Selective Bibliography, 1925-1965; Translator's Preface; Author's Preface; Outline of Egyptian History; By Way of Introduction: The Development of the Literature - The Learned Scribes - Singers and Story-Tellers - The Forms of the Poetry - Writing and Books -... View more info
By: Erskine, John
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1926
Seller ID: 2264164
No jacket, ink name on front endpaper. 1926 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 340 pp. Twice in his life a woman asked Lancelot for his love. Two very different women, both named Elaine. But as the world knows, Lancelot cared for no woman except Guinevere. The second Elaine tried her best to get Lancelot to marry her, or at the very least be her paramour. From these two things, Lancelot excused himself, all the while thinking of his younger years a... View more info
By: Fagunwa, D.O.; Soyinka, Wole; Onobrakpeya, Bruce
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Random House: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2204368
First edition. Page ridges faintly foxed.Near Fine. 1982 Hard Cover. 140 pp. His total conviction in multiple existences within our physical world is as much an inspiration to some of the most brilliant fiction in Yoruba writing as it is a deeply felt urge to 'justify the ways of God to man.'—Wole Soyinka, translator and Nobel LaureateA classic work of African literature, Forest of a Thousand Daemons is the first novel to be written in the Yoruba language. First publ... View more info
By: Greenlee, Sam
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Wayne State University Press: 1969
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2287685
Black smudge on top corners of last few pages. 1969 Trade Paperback. 248 pp. A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the spook who sat by the door, is enlisted in the CIA's elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago bla... View more info
By: Jupo, Frank
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Holiday House, Inc.: 1967
Seller ID: 2205351
Review copy. Endpapers lightly foxed.Stain to bottom edge of jacket rear, jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1967 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. A young African Bushman who is unable to speak joins the hunters for his first hunt, and later tells the story of the hunt in his own way.KEYWORDS: FRANK JUPO ATU SILENT ONE CHILDREN FICTION PICTURE BOOKS AFRICA AFRICAN View more info
By: Lindfors, Bernth
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: Africana Publishing Company: 1982
Seller ID: 1528569
Some pencil marks in text, rubbed & toned with a few tears along jacket edges. 1982 Hard Cover. 198 pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Form, Theme and Style in the Narratives of D.O. Fagunwa; 3. Amos Tutuola's Earliest Long Narrative; 4. C.O.D. Ekwensi's First Stories; 5. The Africanization of Onuora Nzekwu; 6. Popular Literature for an African Elite; 7. Chinua Achebe's Undergraduate Writings; 8. Ladies and Gentlemen at Ibadan; 9. The Early Writings of Wo... View more info
By: Munonye, John
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books: 1966
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2135541
First printing. Spine faded. 1966 Trade Paperback. 201, [1] pp. An only son is wooed from a possessive mother by an enterprising and persistent Catholic mission in Nigeria. By the author of Oil Man of Obange. View more info
By: Nwankwo, Nkem
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Heinemann: 1970
Seller ID: 2119144
Light rubbing to wrappers. 1970 Trade Paperback. A well-respected tribal leader attempts to reform his buffoonish son. View more info
By: Sanders, Dori
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1990
Edition: Signed Copy
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2282433
Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 1990 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. Unpaginated. Short recollections from the author's life growing up on a farm. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dorinda 'Dori' Sanders (born c.1935,[1] York County, South Carolina) is an African-American novelist, food writer and farmer.[2] Her first novel, Clover (1990), was a bestseller, and won a 1990, Lilian Smith Book Award. She has also written a cookbook, Dori Sa... View more info
By: Sapphire
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: High Risk Books: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2282434
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 1994 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 175 pp. Author's second book. One of New York's most popular performance poets, Sapphire explores the raw edges that constitute urban life. In this collection, her poems have been inspired by incidents of violence, crime in Central Park and spiritual renewal after addiction. View more info
By: Sapphire
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2282435
First edition. Signed and dated 10/1/99 by author with heart doodle and no inscription. A very nice copy. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 129 pp. Alive with the emotional honesty and intellectual force for which Sapphire has been admired as both a writer and a performance artist, these forty-seven poems take us into America's past and present, bearing testimony to the black experience in a country fragmented by war, racism, and urban a... View more info
By: Sapphire
Price: $60.00 $48.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2282436
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Author's first novel. Inspiration for the Academy Award winning film Precious. An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child,... View more info
By: Shange, Ntozake
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: St. Martin's Press: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271594
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 288 pp. In Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter, Ntozake Shange brings the strands of memories, dreams, and expectations of a young black woman's life into ours. Through the voices of her childhood friends, Roxie, Lollie, and Bernadette, we encounter the last moments of legal segregation in Mississippi and the beginnings of class war with... View more info
By: Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Alhaji; Hiskett, Mervyn
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Longmans: 1968
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2266787
Second printing. Front wrapper lightly foxed, ink note on front wrapper verso. 1968 Trade Paperback. 80 pp. A family saga, written by the first Federal Prime Minister of Nigeria. It focuses on the struggles of Umar and his mother, and describes Umar's dramatic journey across the desert with a slave caravan. It provides a glimpse into the lives of women and children in a black Islamic society. View more info
By: Soyinka, Wole
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: 2007
Seller ID: 2201082
Half-inch chip to bottom spine edge. 2007 Trade Paperback. xx, 499 pp. The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered homeland.In the tough, humane, and lyrical language that has typified his plays and novels, Soyink... View more info
By: Wright, Richard
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Publisher: Harper & Borthers: 1940
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2283830
First edition. Second state binding. No jacket, gilt on spine rubbed. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 359 pp. Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, an African American youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. While not apologizing for Bigger's crimes, Wright portrays a systemic inevitability behind them. Bigge... View more info
By: Wright, Richard; Reilly, John - afterword
Price: $4.00 $3.20
Publisher: A Perennial Classic: 1966
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2289284
First printing. Pages lightly toned. 1966 Mass Market Paperback. 398 pp. Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, an African American youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. While not apologizing for Bigger's crimes, Wright portrays a systemic inevitability behind them. Bigger's lawyer, Boris Max, makes the case that there is no escape from this ... View more info
