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By: Achebe, Chinua
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Fawcett Crest: 1988
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2287191
ISBN: 0449208109
Condition: Good
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 devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political and religious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to t... View more info
By: Aniebo, I.N.C.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London: Heinemann: 1978
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2135212
Condition: Very Good
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
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 in... View more info
By: Bradford, Roark
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1931
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2283819
Condition: Near Fine
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
Publisher: Vintage Books: 1974
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2288949
ISBN: 0394718887
Condition: Very Good
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 reader shows Garvey in all his dimensions. Among the many contributors are, in addition to Garvey himself, W. E. B. Du Bois,... View more info
By: Cleaver, Eldridge; Gismar, Maxwell
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Delta: 1968
Edition: 6th Printing
Seller ID: 2266364
ISBN: 0440181631
Condition: Very Good
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 read (even praised by Norman Mailer) for their illustration and commentary on Black America. Throughout his narrative, Cleaver d... View more info
By: Coetzee, J.M.
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200388
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... View more info
By: Coetzee, J.M.
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200997
Condition: Near Fine
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 simple: survival, industry and order. Cruso is master and Friday is the slave. Susan watches the creation of a barren world - an a... 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
Condition: Very Good
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, suggested reading list, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group's discussion of her works, which... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Seal Press: 1989
Seller ID: 2266447
ISBN: 0931188741
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, ... View more info
By: Djoleto, Amu
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Heinemann: 1968
Seller ID: 2208329
Condition: Good
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
Publisher: Harper Torchbooks: 1966
Seller ID: 2288071
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... View more info
By: Erskine, John
Price: $7.00
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1926
Seller ID: 2264164
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, ... View more info
By: Fagunwa, D.O.; Soyinka, Wole; Onobrakpeya, Bruce
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Random House: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2204368
ISBN: 0394534115
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 LaureateA 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 liter... View more info
By: Jupo, Frank
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Holiday House, Inc.: 1967
Seller ID: 2205351
Condition: Near Fine
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: Munonye, John
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books: 1966
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2135541
Condition: Very Good
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
Condition: Very Good
Light rubbing to wrappers. 1970 Trade Paperback. A well-respected tribal leader attempts to reform his buffoonish son. View more info
By: Sapphire
Price: $20.00
Publisher: High Risk Books: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2282434
ISBN: 1852423277
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. View more info
By: Sapphire
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2282435
ISBN: 0679446303
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... View more info
By: Sapphire
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2282436
ISBN: 0679446265
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 ... 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
ISBN: 0312113102
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... View more info
By: Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Alhaji; Hiskett, Mervyn
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Longmans: 1968
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2266787
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. View more info
By: Soyinka, Wole
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: 2007
Seller ID: 2201082
ISBN: 0375755144
Condition: Very Good
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, Soyinka captures the indomitable spirit of Nigeria itself by bringing to life the friends and family who bolstered and inspired him... View more info
By: Wright, Richard
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Harper & Borthers: 1940
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2283830
Condition: Near Fine
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. Bigger's lawyer, Boris Max, makes the case that there is no escape from this destiny for his client or any other black American si... View more info
By: Wright, Richard; Reilly, John - afterword
Price: $4.00
Publisher: A Perennial Classic: 1966
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2289284
Condition: Near Fine
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 destiny for his client or any other black American since they are the necessary product of the society that formed them and t... View more info
