Search Results: African Writers Collection from Post Horizon Booksellers

Nairobi, Kenya: East African Publishing House, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 98pp w glossary. Illustrated wrap shows very light handling. Binding square and sound. Reduced shipping may apply.

New York, NY, USA: Vintage, 1989. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 230pp. Colour illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Vintage, October 1989, later printing. "A classic of African autobiography", Wole Soyinka gives us the story of his boyhood, before and during World War II, in a western Nigerian town called Aké.

Nairobi, Kenya: East African Publishing House, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 153pp. Prev owner name and stamp on half-title page. Illustrated wrap shows light handling, no edgewear. Binding square and not creased. Modern African Library edition. Reduced shipping may apply.

London, England: Fontana Modern Novels / Wm. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., 1970. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 157pp. Prev owner name on synopsis page. Photo illustrated wrap shows light wear. Binding sound but creased. Reduced shipping may apply. Translated from the French by James Kirkup. Born in Guinea, Camara Laye's first book, The African Child, told the story of his childhood among the Malinke tribe. It was written during his time in France studying Engineering. In this sequel, the narrator - now influenced by his experiences in Europe - sees an Africa on the brink of independence and has a dream which reveals a terrifying glimpse of the violence and unrest to come.

Legon, Accra, Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 232pp. Light splatter stain to fore edge. Illustrated wrapper is clean, showing light handling. Binding square and not creased. Small octavo: 207 x 147mm. First Sub-Saharan Publishers edition with an introductory essay by Kofi Anyidoho, (1947- ). Third in a trilogy of works by Amma Darko, preceded by Beyond the Horizon, and, The Housemaid

London, England: Secker & Warburg, 1968. 4th Printing. Soft cover. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xxiii, 339pp w glossary and index. Illustrated w indexed maps and photographs. Prev owner name on flyleaf. Illustrated wrap shows light handling, bumping to corners. Binding square and sound. Originally published in 1938 and first published in paperback in 1961, this is the fourth impression, September 1968, stated, with an Introduction by B. Malinowski. "A really competent and instructive contribution to African ethnology by a scholar of pure African parentage.

London, England: Faber & Faber Limited, 1962. First U.K. Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 132pp. Illustrated wrapper is clean, showing moderate wear and surface scuff to spine and fore edges. Binding remains sound but is lightly cocked. 18.5 x 12cm. Reduced shipping may apply. Ten very tall stories of jungle magic and witchcraft by a distinguished Nigerian writer.

London, England: Heinemann Educational Books, 1986. Soft cover. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 107pp. Titled light red wrapper is clean, showing light handling, faint soft crease across top of front cover. Binding square and not creased. Translated from the French by Len Ortzen. Book No. 79 in the African Writers Series. Originally published by Editions Denoel, 1962 and first translated publication by William Heinemann, 1971. First published in this series, 1972, this is the fourth printing, 1986, stated. 18.5 x 12cm. Reduced shipping may apply.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Penguin Books, 2017. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 109pp w endnotes and index. Illustrated wrapper shows light handling. Binding square and not creased. Small octavo. 8th printing.

London, England: Readers International, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. [4], 259pp. Textured green boards w gilt lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ is clean and without wear, preserved in archival cover. First edition in English translation from the French. Originally published as Le Pleurer-Rire, Paris: Presence Africaine (1982), this was Lopes first book to be published in English.

Nairobi, Kenya / Stanford, California: East African Publishing House / The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1966. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xviii, 427pp w endnotes, bibliography, and index. One unpaginated section of indexed bw photos w captions. Two folded maps tipped in inside back cover. Prev owner name inked on half-title page. Illustrated wrap shows surface scuff and light bumping to corners. Binding is square and sound, showing vertical creasing.

Banbury, Oxforshire, England: Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd, 2004. Trade Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xi, 211pp. Photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight. Small octavo.

Stig Vendelkaers Forlag, 1969. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 221pp. Titled wrapper shows moderate handling and colored blotches staining back cover. Binding square but is creased. Scuff to head and tail. 18.5 x 11.5cm. Reduced shipping may apply. A Danish language anthology of "New African Prose" edited by the Sierra Leonean writer Pat Maddy and the Danish playwright Ulla Ryum, and including twenty-three writers from Biafra, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya/Uganda, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rhodesia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and South Africa.

London, England: Heinemann Educational Books, 1969. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Soft cover. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 202pp. Illustrated orange wrapper shows very light soiling commensurate w age and handling, no edgewear. Binding square and not creased. 18.5 x 12cm. First published as Book No. 21 from the African Writers Series, (Editorial Advisor: Chinua Achebe), (1966), this is the 3rd printing, 1969, stated. Reduced shipping may apply. First novel by the distinguished Nigerian writer.

Nairobi, Kenya: East African Publishing House, 1968. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 290pp w glossary. Prev owner name inked at top of flyleaf. Illustrated white wrapper shows light soiling commensurate w age and handling. Soft creasing to spine, binding sound but lightly cocked. From the Modern African Library series. 18.5 x 12cm. First novel by this Kenyan author, set amidst the shattering effect of the Mau Mau Emergency on the social fabric of the Kikikyu people.

Nairobi, Kenya: East Africa Publishing House, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 104pp w glossary. Prev owner name inked at top of half-title page. Illustrated white wrapper shows light soiling commensurate w age and handling, soft crease to bottom front corner. Binding square and not creased. From the Modern African Library series. 18.5 x 12cm. Reduced shipping may apply.

Nairobi, Kenya: East Africa Publishing House, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 223pp. Prev owner name inked at top of half-title page. Illustrated white wrapper shows moderate soiling, commensurate w age and handling. No edgewear, very light bumping to corners. Binding square and not creased. 18 x 12cm. From the East Africa Publishing House series, Modern African Library. Reduced shipping may apply.

Nairobi, Kenya: East African Publishing House, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Christensson, Elizabet. 132pp. Four full-page illustrations. Prev owner name inked top half-title page. Illustrated wrap shows light wear and soiling commensurate w age and handling. Mild bumping to corners. Binding square and sound. Modern African Library edition. Reduced shipping may apply.

London, England: Heinemann Educational Books, 1969. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Ahmed, Taj. 156pp. Prev owner name inked at top of flyleaf. Illustrated wrappers is clean, showing slight handling, no edgewear. Binding square and not creased. Book 59 in the African Writers Series. 18.5 x 12.5cm. Reduced shipping may apply.

London, England: Heinemann Educational Books, 1969. 4th Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 175pp. Prev owner stamp at top of flyleaf, prev owner name inked at top of half-title page. Illustrated wrapper shows moderate handling, soft crease to top front corner. Binding sound and not creased. Book 17 from the African Writers Series. Originally published 1965, and first published in the African Writers Series in the same year, this is the fourth printing, 1969, stated.