First edition of the "first classic African novel" (Killam) in Anglophone literature, a work of immense impact on postcolonial literature.
Very good in very good jacket.
Price: $7,000.00
"Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten."
First in the Nigerian author's African trilogy, which also includes NO LONGER AT EASE (1960) and ARROW OF GOD (1964), THINGS FALL APART was selected by TIME magazine on one of its "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005," and by the BBC for its "100 Novels That Shaped Our World." An enduring and landmark book, central to the development of the 20th-century novel in English.
Read more: Killam, Literature of Africa.
First printing. London / Melbourne / Toronto: Heinemann, (1958). 7.25'' x 5''. Original full orange cloth. In original price-clipped color pictorial jacket designed by C.W. Bacon. One of 2000 copies. [viii], 188 pages. Faint sunning to spine. Some minor edgewear, soil. Crease to rear flap. Cloth sunned at spine, with some mottling here and there. Minor shelfwear, foxing to extremities. Previous owner's name penned to front pastedown. Overall, sound.
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