Ellen Saito, bookseller
Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo (8.1 in, 20.6 cm). [xvi], [3] 4-175 [1 blank] pp. First American edition: Prominent African author, poet, politician during the Nigerian Civil War, and scholar, Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) wrote widely on cultural, political, and social issues. Dominant African novelist, Achebe is noted for..... More
Garden City, (New York): Doubleday, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo (8.4 in, 21.3 cm). [5] 6-96 pp. Poems. Introduction by Ezekiel Mphahlele. First edition stated: "In Night of My Blood, Kofi Awoonor [1935-2013] uses the medium of the traditional Ewe song to lament the neglect of his ancestral shrines and gods by..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1961. Hardcover. 12mo (7.4 in, 18.8 cm). [6] 7-207 [208] pp. Jacket design by Peter Edwards. First edition stated: "Onuora Nzekwu is the assistant editor of the Nigerian Magazine. He was born in Kafanchan, Nigeria, in 1928. Before he joined the Nigeria Magazine he was a teacher. Wand..... More
New York: The Hunt Publishing Co., 1922. Hardcover. 12mo (7 in, 17.8 cm). [15] 16-111 [blank]; frontis. port. Translation by John Crosby Gordon from original Spanish [manuscript]. Sole edition: "Divided into seventeen short thematic chapters, The Color Question in the Two Americas surveyed the sociopolitical condition of Afro-Cubans and African-Americans..... More
New York: Viking, 1964. Hardcover. 8vo (8.5 in, 21.6 cm). [viii], 180 pp. First edition: "Historically, it had been a significant achievement. But what had it been like for the Student Heroes?" - front flap. "Calvin Trillin is a staff writer for The New Yorker... Mr. Trillin spent a year..... More
London: Hogarth Press, 1955. Hardcover. 12mo (7.8 in, 19.8 cm). 159 [1] pp. First edition: Sir Laurens Van der Post (1906-1996) was a prolific African writer outspoken against apartheid. "In The Dark Eye he explores the tension between the white and black people in Africa in a dimension we truly..... More