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THE BURDEN OF MEMORY, THE MUSE OF FORGIVENESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A powerful collection of essays by this Nobel Laureate writer, originally delivered at Harvard University in 1997 as the inaugural lectures at the W. E. B. DuBois Institute Macmillan series. " In the face of centuries-long devastation wrought on the African continent and her diaspora by slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism, what form of recompense could possibly be adequate? .... Soyinka examines the question, illuminating the principle duty and 'near intolerable burden' of memory to bear the record of injustice." Leopold Senghor, Martin Luther King, the genocide in Sudan, the atrocities in Nigeria are just a few of the topics Soyinka touches on. SIGNED on the title page. Index. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5122054.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 73793More details Price: $85.00 -
IDANRE AND OTHER POEMS.
Edition: 2nd printing (originally published in 1967).
London: Methuen, (1969) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The first collection of poems by this Nobel Prize winning author, published when he was in prison in Nigeria for allegedly supporting secessionist Biafra. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus. Notes, 88 pp. ISBN: 0-416-46310x.
Condition: Very good in a fair dust jacket (spot on front endpaper, chip at bottom of dj spine, closed tear and associated creasing on front cover of dj, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 73791More details Price: $150.00 -
YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN: A Memoir.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Random House, (2007). The second volume of memoirs by this Nobel Prize winning author, the first African writer to win a Nobel in literature. This covers his turbulent life both in Nigeria, where he was imprisoned for his opposition to dictatorship and in exile from his country. Maps, chronology. xx, 499 pp. ISBN: 978-0375503658.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79016More details Price: $12.50 -
THE BURDEN OF MEMORY, THE MUSE OF FORGIVENESS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. First edition - A powerful collection of essays by this Nobel Laureate writer, originally delivered at Harvard University in 1997 as the inaugural lectures at the W. E. B. DuBois Institute Macmillan series. " In the face of centuries-long devastation wrought on the African continent and her diaspora by slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism, what form of recompense could possibly be adequate? .... Soyinka examines the question, illuminating the principle duty and 'near intolerable burden' of memory to bear the record of injustice." Leopold Senghor, Martin Luther King, the genocide in Sudan, the atrocities in Nigeria are just a few of the topics Soyinka touches on. Publisher's material laid in. 192 pp
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 80791More details Price: $35.00 -
ISARA: A Voyage Around "Essay."
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Random House, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second memoir by this Nobel laureate - an affectionate evocation of his father, Essay, who died while Soyinka was in political exile. Isara was the native village of his father and friends. SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-394540778.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66274More details Price: $100.00 -
A HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA, AD 1000-1965.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Nairobi, Kenya: East African Publishing House, (E.A.P.H.), (1975). First edition - While this is a good general history of West Africa, it was also written to cover the syllabus and examination requirements for the West Africa paper as part of the East African Certificate Illustrated with photographs and maps. Includes a glossary, sources, suggestions for further reading, revision notes, questions and an index. 274 pp.
Condition: Very good - previous owner's name stamped, some minor wear to covers - uncommon.
Book ID: 82871More details Price: $27.50 -
SIMBI AND THE SATYR OF THE DARK JUNGLE.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1988.). Originally published in the UK in 1955, this is the story of Simbi, the most beautiful girl in the village, daughter of the wealthiest woman, who tires of her privileged existence and goes in search of Poverty and Punishment. 156 pp. ISBN: 0-87286-2143.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 41488More details Price: $10.00 -
THE PALM-WINE DRINKARD and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Grove Press, (1982.). A novel originally published in 1953, perhaps the best known work by this important Nigerian writer. Cover praise from Dylan Thomas who called it a 'brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching story.' 130 pp. ISBN: 0-394-172353.
Condition: Good only (prev owner's name, toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 42852More details Price: $9.00 -
MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS.
Edition: First paperback printing.
London: Faber & Faber, (1964). The second novel by this Nigerian author, who based his books on Yoruba folktales and traditions. First published in 1954, this tells the story of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a wild and grotesque African forest, where he is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs. With a foreword by Geoffrey Parrinder. 174 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name - that of the poet Elizabeth La Place [Harrod] on the first page).
Book ID: 78953More details Price: $20.00 -
ON BLACK SISTERS STREET.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, tear to dj at fold of rear flap).
Book ID: 85384More details Price: $18.50 -
INDIGO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's fourth novel (his first won the PEN/Faulkner award) - set in Lagos Nigeria during four crisis-filled weeks in 1983. SIGNED by Wiley on the title page. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-525-935479.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 31529More details Price: $30.00 -
INDIGO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's fourth novel (his first won the PEN/Faulkner award) - set in Lagos Nigeria during four crisis-filled weeks in 1983. INSCRIBED on the half title page to noted Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-525-935479.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (as new, but remainder line).
Book ID: 60881More details Price: $28.50