OYONO, Ferdinand; John Reed, trans.

The Old Man and the Medal

[London]: Heinemann, [1967]. First English Language Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket, rear flap cancel; [6],167pp. Minor edge wear to jacket extremities, price sticker to upper jacket flap not affecting original price, additional old faint rubber price stamps to front free endpaper; rear jacket flap cancel foxed along fold; still, a Very Good and sound copy overall. First published in the original French in 1956 under the title Le Vieux Nègre et la Médaille.

Cameroonian author's second novel, a criticism of colonialism in the same vein as his first, and arguably most important, work, Une Vie de Boy (1956), translated into English as Houseboy.

Price: $125.00

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