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GRACELAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Nigerian-born author's powerful first novel, the story of a teenage Elvis impersonator living in a sprawling slum of Lagos. Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-374-165890.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69212More details Price: $20.00 -
ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Anchor Books, 1988. A novel of contemporary Africa, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 11606More details Price: $8.50 -
ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of contemporary Africa by this Nigerian writer. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-385-016646.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (several edge tears to dj, corner of flap clipped but price of 16.95 still present).
Book ID: 58167More details Price: $18.50 -
SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps. .
Book ID: 82739More details Price: $30.00 -
SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82738More details Price: $65.00 -
MISTER JOHNSON.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Time-Life Books, (1981.). Reprint of Cary's greatest novel with a new introduction by V. S. Pritchett and an editor's preface. xv, 300 pp,
Condition: Very good in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 51690More details Price: $10.00 -
LITTLE BEE.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 74668More details Price: $21.50 -
THE ADVENTURES OF OBATALA: Ifa and Santeria God of Creativity.
Edition: First edition, a trade paperback original.
Osogbo, Oyo State, Nigeria: A.P.I. Production, (1989). First edition - Presents selections from Odu Ifa concerning Obatala, the Yoruba God of creativity and arch-divinity.The author is a Yoruba and Nigerian writer, poet, author, linguist, and an Ifa priest, who has been recognized for his pursuit of the preservation of Yoruba culture and heritage. Illustrated, notes, glossary. 90 pp. ISBN: 0-916299082.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87621More details Price: $40.00 -
AN AFRICAN SCHOOL. A Record of Experience.
Edition: First printing.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dj flap: 'An account of the experience of a young Englishman teaching History and English in a Roman Catholic Mission Secondary School in northern Nigeria in the period between independence and the first intimations of the Nigerian Civil War.' Illustrated with line drawings, viii , 232 pp
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, missing front endpaper, but overall tight and clean in a very good dj (spine label).
Book ID: 28424More details Price: $16.00 -
THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: George Braziller, (1979.). Nigerian-born author's fourth novel, a moving story of the struggles of one Ibo woman to keep her family together, through periods of extreme hardship and deprivation both in the village and in urban Lagos. In telling the story of Nnu Ego, Emecheta is writing about the plight of women everywhere. 234 pp. Cover art by Catherine Stock. ISBN: 0-807609501.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (some highlighting in the beginning of the book).
Book ID: 41229More details Price: $9.00 -
THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: George Braziller, (1979.). Nigerian-born author's fourth novel, a moving story of the struggles of one Ibo woman to keep her family together, through periods of extreme hardship and deprivation both in the village and in urban Lagos. In telling the story of Nnu Ego, Emecheta is writing about the plight of women everywhere. 234 pp. Cover art by Catherine Stock. ISBN: 0-807609501.
Condition: Ex-library but only a couple of small markings - overall very good condition - tight and clean.
Book ID: 65826More details Price: $9.50 -
POETRY, PROSE AND POPULAR CULTURE IN HAUSA.
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, (1996.). First edition - Comprehensive anthology, with extensive notes and commentary, of the many literary genres of Hausa - the language spoken in Nigeria, Niger, northern Ghana, Senegal and the Sudan. Includes both the original Hausa and translations of many works and places the development of each genre into a historical context. Notes, bibliography, index. 338 pp. ISBN: 1-56098-6956.
Condition: Fine in glossy navy blue wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 30325More details Price: $20.00 -
THE IROKO-MAN: A Yoruba Folktale.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Orchard Books, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A retelling of the story 'Oluronbi' in "Yoruba Legends" by M. I. Ogumefu, published in 1929 - a story which echoes that of Rumpelstiltskin. Colorfully illustrated with acrylic and collage paintings by Holly C. Kim (her first children's book.) Large format, unpaginated. Reinforced binding. ISBN: 0-531086607.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards in a fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 41875More details Price: $15.00 -
THE VOYAGE OF THE DAYSPRING: Being the Journal of the late Sir John Hawley Glover, R.N., G.C.M.G., together with some account of the Expedition up the Niger River in 1857.
Edition: First printing.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, Ltd, (1926.). Hardcover first edition - Journal kept by Glover, the future Governor of Lagos (Nigeria,) when he was a young Lieutenant with the Baikie Expedition in 1857, interspersed with commentary by Hastings. In her introduction, his wife, Lady Glover, emphasizes the love that her husband had for Africa and Nigeria, which continued long after his 14 years of service there, mostly as governor. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 21 photographs on glossy inserted plates. Index. xii, 230 pp plus two pages of publisher's advertisements.
Condition: Very good in original blue-green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. (some foxing to outer edges of textblock, minor wear to ends of spine).
Book ID: 38336More details Price: $50.00 -
MIGRATIONS OF THE HEART, a Personal Odyssey
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1987.). African American novelist's first book - the story of her marriage to a Nigerian and her experiences in Africa. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-345-346696.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 51603More details Price: $8.50 -
THROUGH AFRICAN DOORS: Experiences and Encounters in West Africa.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grove Press, 1962. dj. Hardcover first edition - Jahn, a noted writer on African culture, ate, slept and traveled as the Africans do themselves through Nigeria and Togo. Illustrated with black and white photographs by Helmut Lander. Translated by Oliver Coburn. 235 pp plus 4 pp of maps.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (minor wear to dj.)
Book ID: 33356More details Price: $23.50 -
ABIKU.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Pasadena, CA: Nepotist Books, (1998.). SIGNED first edition - "A novel of heart stopping suspense" set in modern Nigeria. The title means a child that was born to die - INSCRIBED on the half title page "To - - - for your pursuit of achievable happiness" and dated 1-30-99. Winner of the 1995 Phi Kappa Phi Prize for Fiction, USC. 417 pp. ISBN: 0-9668772-84.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 56776More details Price: $20.00 -
THE EMERGENCE OF AFRICAN FICTION.
Edition: Revised edition.
Bloomington, IN and London: Indiana University Press, (1972.) dj. Hardcover - Described as the first comprehensive study of the African novel, illustrating what is particularly different about African fiction and showing that the Western literary is irrelevant to the contributions being made by modern African writers - including Chinua Achebe and Amos Tutuola (Nigeria), James Ngugi (Kenya), Peter Abrahams (South Africa), Camara Laye (Guinea) and others. Foreword by Newton P. Stallknecht. Map frontispiece. Notes, selected bibliography, index. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-253-319455.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine dust jacket (peeled spot near bottom of dj spine.)
Book ID: 42855More details Price: $15.00 -
FAMILY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN AN AFRICAN CITY: A Study of Rehousing in Lagos.
Edition: 3rd printing.
Northwestern University, 1971. dj. Includes appendices, index, and black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Number 8 in the African Studies series.
Condition: Very good- but with highlighting throughout book, no dj.
Book ID: 14508More details Price: $10.00 -
FOREIGN GODS, INC.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to pages)
Book ID: 82134More details Price: $18.50 -
AN ORCHESTRA OF MINORITIES.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88669More details Price: $30.00 -
THE VOICE.
Edition: First paperback printing.
London: Collins / Fontana Press, (1973). Nigerian author's ground-breaking first novel - a "linguistic experiment in which Okara translated directly from the Ijo (Ijaw) language, imposing Ijo syntax onto English in order to give literal expression to African ideas and imagery. The novel creates a symbolic landscape in which the forces of traditional African culture and Western materialism contend." (Britannica) 96 pp. ISBN: 0-006131549.
Condition: Ex-library with remnants of label inside front cover, usual toning to pages, but overall good condition. Uncommon.
Book ID: 86226More details Price: $10.00 -
SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1993. First edition - Sequel to Okri's Booker Prize winner novel, 'The Famished Road.' Although the cover indicates Doubleday as the US publisher, this advance issue is printed from the sheets of the first edition in the UK with Jonathan Cape shown on the title page.
Condition: Near fine in printed wrappers.
Book ID: 15055More details Price: $25.00 -
STARS OF THE NEW CURFEW
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Viking, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 6 short stories, the first book by this Nigerian writer to be published in the United States.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 5027More details Price: $30.00 -
SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT.
Edition: First printing.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to Okri's Booker Prize winner novel, 'The Famished Road.' A magical novel of a nation struggling to be born. ISBN: 0-224-036300.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 22499More details Price: $30.00 -
SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to Okri's Booker Prize winner novel, 'The Famished Road.' A magical novel of a nation struggling to be born. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-385-471548.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53288More details Price: $20.00 -
A IS FOR AFRICA.
Edition: First printing.
New York Dutton - Cobblehill Books, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A colorful book with each letter of the alphabet illustrated by a full color photograph taken by the author, and showing an aspect of the village life she knew growing up as a member of the Igbo tribe in southwestern Nigeria - even though the pictures were taken in Nigeria, they represent universal African experiences of traditional village life, warm family ties and hospitality. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-525-651470.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 60776More details Price: $21.50 -
DOUBLE DESCENT IN AN AFRICAN SOCIETY: The Afikpo Village-Group.
Edition: First printing.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with photographs, maps, charts. Glossary, bibliography, index. 284 pp.
Condition: Very good in green cloth (gift inscription on front endpaper, no dj.)
Book ID: 24720More details Price: $15.00 -
BOYHOOD RITUALS IN AN AFRICAN SOCIETY: An Interpretation.
Edition: First printing.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An anthropological study of boyhood in a group of related Igbo villages in southeatern Nigeria." Illustrated with maps, figures and photographs. Bibliography, index. xxiv, 344 pp. Photographic endpapers. ISBN: 0-295-965754.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 47213More details Price: $30.00 -
CLOTH THAT DOES NOT DIE: The Meaning of Cloth in Bunu Social Life.
Edition: First printing.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The use and production of cloth in Bunu (Yoruba) society in central Nigeria from 1900 to the present, and the traditions associated with that cloth. The title refers to a Yoruba saying that 'Cloth only wears, it does not die." Illustrated with 8 full color photographic plates and many black and white photographs, as well as figures and maps. . Notes, glossary, bibliography, index. 269 p. ISBN: 0-295-973927.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 47217More details Price: $25.00