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Pardoner's Tale

By: Beaver, Harold

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1966

Seller ID: 2204038

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 wit and more uneasiness. They deplore the Congo, talk about books and witchcraft, attend a native funeral, become involved i...
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Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Classic African Novel

By: CFagunwa, D.O.; Soyinka, Wole; Onobrakpeya, Bruce

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1982

Seller ID: 2204368

ISBN: 0394534115

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 Laureate A classic work of African literature,Forest of a Thousand Daemonsis the first novel to be written in the Yoruba language. First published in Nigeria in 1939, it is one of that country's most revered and widely read works, and its influence on Nigerian literature...
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Tales From an African Drum

By: Chetin, Helen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.: 1970

Seller ID: 2191583

ISBN: 0152842004

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Boards stained, pencil marks on front endpaper and page 13. Very Good. 1970 Hard Cover. 96 pp. Here are eleven stories of Africa, centering around the great chief Mawkoom and his grandson Neyroom, that celebrate the strength, wisdom, and beauty of the African people. From the moment of his grandson's birth, Mawkoom prepared Neyroom to succeed him as chief... Black and white illustrations by Charles Robinson throughout.
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Age of Iron

By: Coetzee, J.M.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, Secker & Warburg: 1990

Seller ID: 2200388

ISBN: 0436200120

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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 silent companion and confessor as she tries to make her peace with the world. The novel is an anguished lament for a country on th...
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Olode the Hunter and Other Tales from Nigeria

By: Courlander, Harold

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ., Harcourt, Brace & World: 1968

Seller ID: 2119148

ISBN: 0152578269

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light edge wear to jacket. Very Good. 1968 Hard Cover. Tales mostly taken from the Yoruba people of Western Nigeria, though some of the Ibo and Hausa people are included as well.
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Nervous Conditions: A Novel

By: Dangarembga, Tsitsi

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Washington, Seal Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2266447

ISBN: 0931188741

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

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, with The Book of Not published in 2006 as the second novel in the series. The novel illustrates the dynamic themes of race, ...
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Kintu: A Congo Adventure

By: Enright, Elizabeth

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rhinehart, Inc.: 1935

Seller ID: 2307437

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Early printing (FR no on copyright). No jacket. Ink name and address on front free endpaper. 1935 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 54 pp. Color illustrations. Kintu must overcome his fear of the jungle if he is to one day succeed his father as chief of their village.
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Treasure of the Lake (Allan Quartermain)

By: Haggard, H. Rider [Henry]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1926

Seller ID: 2308130

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Pencil mark on top page ridge, pencil name on front endpapers. 1926 Hard Cover. 312 pp. One of two posthumously published Allan Quartermain novels, set in Africa. Treasure and the occult are vividly blended in this stirring tale of Africa. Allan Quatermain finds a village in the middle of the Dark Continent ruled by a huge, pale man with a strange knowledge of future events. This is the last Quatermain book. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE (22 June 1856 14 May 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predomi...
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New Beginnings

By: Olson, Janet

Price: $12.00

Publisher: SC, Janet Olson: 2020

Seller ID: 2308109

ISBN: 1733462406

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author with inscription. Crease on spine. 2020 Trade Paperback. 269 pp. Ida and Engen's 13-year-old friendship is altered when the death of their friend comes between them. Engen, guilt-ridden over Janelle's passing, has become violent. Ida, in her grief, attempts to fill the loss with a one-night stand, which leaves her pregnant. As punishment, their parents force them to join a program called Youth of America Help a Nation, and they are sent to Africa on work assignments. Enter Lev Rosen, Ida's irresistible boss at the orphanage where shes been appointed. Lev has his...
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Cry, the Beloved Country

By: Paton, Alan

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner: 2003

Seller ID: 2308247

ISBN: 0743262174

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Faint sticker remnant. 2003 Trade Paperback. 283 pp. Cry, the Beloved Country is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen empathy and understanding that to read it is to share fully in the gravity of the characters' situations. It both touches your heart deeply and inspires a renewed faith in the dignity of mankind. Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic tale, passionately African, timeless and universal, and beyond all, selfless.
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American Dreams

By: Sapphire

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York/London, High Risk Books: 1994

Seller ID: 2282434

ISBN: 1852423277

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

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.
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Black Wings and Blind Angels: Poems

By: Sapphire

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1999

Seller ID: 2282435

ISBN: 0679446303

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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 and domestic violence. They tell the story of a search for the complicated spiritual path back to one's roots, a story of fami...
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Push: A Novel

By: Sapphire

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1996

Seller ID: 2282436

ISBN: 0679446265

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and ...
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Zulu Fireside Tales

By: Savory, Phyllis

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Hastings House: 1961

Seller ID: 2307389

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed. 1961 Large Hardcover. 64 pp. Woodcut illustrations by Sylvia Baxter. A collection of magical and mysterious adventure tales of children, animals, and monsters that were told orally for children, and passed down from generation to generation.
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Ofay: A Novel

By: Shorris, Earl

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press: 1966

Seller ID: 2301638

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket spine head and spine base taped on rear side of jacket, jacket lightly rubbed. Stain on spine head. 1966 Hard Cover. 240 pp. O'fay: Negro slang for white person; from the Pig Latin for 'foe.' Josh didn't pity Negroes. He loved them - as individuals, and as a race. Negroes are the only people around who really feel things...the only people left who dare to do something without knowing how it's going to turn out. So, he left the square white world behind. He came to St. Louis to try to make it - on the worst street in the Negro ghetto - a world of junk, of jazzing, of hipst...
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Three Novels: Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks (Library of America, No. 4)

By: Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Library of America: 1982

Seller ID: 2300599

ISBN: 0940450011

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Includes publisher's slipcase. A near fine copy in a near fine slipcase. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1478 pp. In this Library of America volume are the best and most enduring works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the little woman, as Abraham Lincoln said when he met her in 1861, who wrote the book that made this great war. He was referring, with rueful exaggeration, to Uncle Toms Cabin (1852), which during its first year had sold over 300,000 copies. Contemporary readers can still appreciate the powerful effects of its melodramatic characterizations and its unapolo...
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You Can't Get Lost In Cape Town

By: Wicomb, Zoe

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ., Pantheon: 1987

Seller ID: 2201531

ISBN: 0394560302

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light edge wear to jacket. 1987 Hard Cover. You Can't Get Lost in Cape Townis among the only works of fiction to explore the experience of Coloured citizens in apartheid-era South Africa, whose mixed heritage traps them, as Bharati Mukherjee wrote in the New York Times, in the racial crucible of their country. Frieda Shenton, the daughter of Coloured parents in rural South Africa, is taught as a child to emulate whites: she is encouraged to learn correct English, to straighten her hair, and to do more than, as her father says, peg out the madams washing.
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Journey to Beloved

By: Winfrey, Oprah

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Hyperion: 1998

Seller ID: 2269231

ISBN: 0786864583

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 1998 Large Hardcover. Of all the events in Oprah Winfrey's life, none has affected her powerfully as playing the part of Sethe, the former slave who must come to terms with a haunting past, in Jonathan Demme's film of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel - coming from Touchstone Pictures in Fall 1998. Oprah fell in love with the book when it was first published in 1988, and instantly became determined to deliver this powerful story to film herself. But making the movie was something even more profound than she might have imagined, and JOURNEY TO THE ...
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Native Son

By: Wright, Richard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1940

Seller ID: 2283830

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Second state binding. No jacket, gilt on spine rubbed. 1940 Hard Cover. 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. Bigger's lawyer, Boris Max, makes the case that there is no escape from this destiny for his client or any other black American since they are the necessary product of the soci...
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