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By: Aniebo, I.N.C.
Price: $20.00
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
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: Cleaver, Eldridge; Gismar, Maxwell
Price: $10.00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Greenwood Press: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1292501
First edition. No jacket. Pencil marks throughout text, ink name on front endpaper. 1980 Hard Cover. Egejuru interviews nine writers, six West Africans and one each from Kenya, Algeria, and South Africa, arranging the material by topic. Her provocative questions elicit interesting and sometimes bristling replies... An informative introduction examines the role of the Negritude movement in the development of African literature, and biographical notes are supplied. CONTENT... View more info
By: Erskine, John
Price: $7.00
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
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: Jones, Leroi [Baraka, Amiri; Baraka, Imamu Amear]
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Grove Press Inc.: 1966
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2270175
First printing. Spine creased, edges lightly rubbed, ink mark on front wrapper, very faint stain on rear wrapper. 1966 Mass Market Paperback. 154 pp. Follows a young black man living nomadically in big cities and small towns in the Southern United States, and his struggles with segregation and racism. The book correlates the man's experience with Dante's Inferno, and includes a diagram of the fictional hell described by Dante. Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones,... View more info
By: Jupo, Frank
Price: $10.00
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: Laye, Camara
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Presses Pocket: 1992
Seller ID: 2196622
Ink underlining. 1992 Mass Market Paperback. Si dans L'Enfant noir l'écrivain guinéen s'imaginait ne penser qu'à lui, tracer les contours de sa Haute-Guinée natale , c'est pourtant un chant universel qui en est sorti. [...] Seul en Europe, détaché de sa famille, il se consolait avec les mots. Et le soir, la main tremblante, le coeur serré par la nostalgie, il devait retrouver sa terre natale, la clameur des forgerons provenant de l'atelier de son père, la voix r... View more info
By: Lindfors, Bernth
Price: $5.00
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
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
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
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Editions Du Seuil: 1972
Seller ID: 2196630
Ink underlining. 1972 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. A mixed-race girl lives through the dangers of excitement of the late 18th century. View more info
By: Shange, Ntozake
Price: $15.00
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
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: $10.00
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
