Search Results: Signed first editions by achebe

Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1989. Poems from formerly Portuguese colonies in Africa, with English translations opposite. INSCRIBED by the translator/editor to a colleague who had served as president of the African Literature Association. Paperback, as pictured. Light wear, dent & creasing to upper front cover, minor chips to spine ends. Text clean; xix, blank, 193 pages + 9-page list of other titles in the publisher's Monographs in International Studies series. . Inscribed by the Translator. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 5½" by 8½".

London: Heinemann, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Inscribed by Achebe on the title page. About Fine. Faintly rubbed and faded at the spine and edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of stories written since 1942 and gathered from all across Africa, including works from Achebe, Owoyele, Gurnah, Ngugi, Essop, Gordimer, among others.

Doubleday, 1988-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed. First edition, first printing. Signed by Achebe on the title. Story about a group of friends caught up in a corrupt regime in a fictional African country.

New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1988. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1988. First U.S. Edition. Signed by Achebe without inscription at title page. Octavo. 216 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Orange and purple boards stamped in silver; tan endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket worn and wrinkled along edges with mild chipping and soiling. Boards shelfworn and spine ends nudged. Slight lean to boards but binding is sound. Foxing to edges of text block and overzealous rubbing/erasing to preliminaries, but interior unmarked. Still a Very Good copy; scarce signed.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Stephen Chinua Achebe." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen M. Lynch.

New York: Anchor Books/ Doubleday, 1998. First edition of this work with essays and poems by Chinua Achebe. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Chinua Achebe on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Hubbard. Photographs by Robert Lyons. Another Africa is a book that fuses photographs, poetry, and text to create a view of present-day Africa that moves beyond the stereotypes commonly held by most westerners: an open-air ethnographic museum, a continent in constant turmoil, a vast expanse of beautiful sand dunes and tropical savannas where herds of wildlife roam. This work peels away myths to explore the complexity, diversity, and human dimensions of a place called Africa--one that celebrates the commonplace and exotic simultaneously. The photographs are highly subjective, a personal investigation that reflects the sensibilities, formal concerns, and the ongoing engagement of the photographer in this part of the world. With the brilliant Chinua Achebe--a… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1963. Signed by Author. (London: Heinemann African Writers Series 1963). First UK Edition Thus. A Softback. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. African Writers Series No. 3. Illustrated by Bruce Onobrakpeya. A VG+ copy with a slightly darkened spine. Inscribed by the Author to the title page: "For Adelaide Hill/ with regards/ Chinua Achebe". Scarce with these attributes. Photographs/scans available upon request.

New York: John Day, (1967). First U.S. edition. SIGNED BY ACHEBE on the title page. Final book in his acclaimed African trilogy. Winner of the first-ever Jock Campbell/New Statesman Prize for African writing. Near fine to fine with gilt spine lettering just slightly dulled; in near fine dust jacket with light shelf wear. Scarce signed.

New York: The John Day Company, 1967. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Chinua Achebe on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original magenta cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with light dust-soiling and light fading to cloth at edges, pages lightly tanned and faintly foxed at textblock edge. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with fraying to the spine ends, rubbing to the rear panel, foxing and toning to the blindside. The Nigerian author's third novel, the last of The African Trilogy.

New York: Astor-Honor/ An Obolensky Book, 1959. First edition of this "true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world" (Barack Obama). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Chinua Achebe on the title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. First editions are rare and desirable signed. 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 andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more… Read More

New York: Astor-Honor/ An Obolensky Book, 1959. First edition of this "true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world" (Barack Obama). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Chinua Achebe on the title page. Review copy, with the slip laid in, fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. First editions are rare and desirable signed. 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 andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful… Read More