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Pardoner's Tale

By: Beaver, Harold

Price: $15.00

Publisher: 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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Age of Iron

By: Coetzee, J.M.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: 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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Nervous Conditions: A Novel

By: Dangarembga, Tsitsi

Price: $5.00

Publisher: 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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The Ancient Egyptians: A Sourcebook of Their Writings

By: Erman, Adolf; Simpson, William K.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Harper Torchbooks: 1966

Seller ID: 2288071

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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 - Our Understanding of Egyptian Texts; From the Oldest Poetry: From the Pyramid Texts - To the Crowns - Morning Hymns - Narrat...
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Galahad: Enough of His Life to Explain His Reputation

By: Erskine, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1926

Seller ID: 2264164

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 and the other Elaine, King Pelles' daughter. She too had offered herself, heart and body, and though at first he had said no, ...
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Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Classic African Novel

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

Price: $40.00

Publisher: 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 Daemons is 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 lit...
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American Dreams

By: Sapphire

Price: $20.00

Publisher: 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: 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: 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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Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter

By: Shange, Ntozake

Price: $15.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: 1994

Seller ID: 2271594

ISBN: 0312113102

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

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 within the black community of Queens. The voices of her lovers, Victor-Jesus, Zoom, Thayer, and Sawyer, reveal Liliane in the mor...
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Ofay: A Novel

By: Shorris, Earl

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 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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Shaihu Umar

By: Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Alhaji; Hiskett, Mervyn

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Longmans: 1968

Seller ID: 2266787

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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.
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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: 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 Tom’s 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 ...
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Native Son

By: Wright, Richard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: 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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