[Ibadan, Nigeria: Onibonoje Press, 1970]. First Edition. Epic poem based on the deeds of the Yoruba woman Moremi, who saved her village from foreign invaders. Published as a school reader, with a glossary of difficult words and textual questions at the end of the text. 12mo (18cm.); original pictorial staplebound..... More

London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-309,[3]pp. Faint foxing to cloth, text edges, and endpapers, else clean internally; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 15s net), gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn and dust-soiled, with two tiny..... More

Ibadan: Adekile Goodwill Grammar School, [1973]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original blue and black staplebound wrappers lettered in yellow and white; 49pp. Fine. Imprint on upper cover: Ilesanmi Press Ltd., Ilesa. 5-act play set in a polygamous home in Nigeria. Unlocated in OCLC as of September, 2015. More

Blantyre, Malawi: Hetherwick Press Ltd., 1971. Third (1972) Printing. Anthology published by the Writers Group in the University of Malawi, collecting 39 poems by 19 contributors, including Josephine Kaphwiyo, Nellie C. Chirwa, Scopas Gorinwa, Innocent Banda, and John A. Mapanje, et al. Slim octavo (20.75cm); printed sheets, hand-sewn into yellow..... More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); dark brown cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; xiv,318,[2]pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few small tears, and a tiny abrasion to front panel. The first full-scale critical..... More

Ibadan, Nigeria: Onibonoje Press & Book Industries, 1973. First Edition. Nigerian author's story for the Junior African Literature Series (no.7), relating the tale of a young village boy who is captured and sold into slavery, and who eventually becomes a bishop who translates the New Testament into the Yoruba language..... More

[Accra, Ghana: State Publishing Corporation, 1967]. First Edition. Quarto (24.75cm.); original red and black pictorial staplebound wrappers; 48pp.; illus. Edges a touch rubbed from shelf wear, else Near Fine. Includes contributions by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, former President of the Republic of Nigeria; Sir Robert Armitage, former governor of Nyasaland; and..... More

[New York: American Committee on Africa], 1959. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 23pp.; illus. Some minor toning and dust-soil else Very Good. Includes an article on the newly elected first President of Guinea Sékou Touré, during whose 26-year régime approximatley 50,000 people would be killed. More

[Iponri, Lagos: Progressive Outlook Printers], 1971. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original pink decorative staplebound wrappers; [2],24pp. A touch dust-soiled, with slight fading along spine, else Near Fine. Produced in the tradition of Nigerian market literature, this provides brief accounts of countries in which the army had to take over the..... More

Paris: Présence Africaine, [1972]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original yellow pictorial wrappers; 187,[2]pp. About Fine. Novel by a native of the still newly-independent Central African Republic. Set in a small village in the 1930s during the French colonial occupation. More

Wellesley: Wellesley College, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's tan printed card wrappers; [6],163pp. Wrappers rather worn from handling, some light dust-soil, a few leaves dog-eared, else About Very Good. Symposium presented by the Barnette Miller Foundation at Wellseley College, Feburary 16 and 17, 1960. Moderators and participants included Ralph..... More

Lincoln, Massachusetts: Panmaen Press, 1980. First, Limited Edition. First Printing. Deluxe issue, limited to 100 signed copies, signed by the translator and illustrator this being #61. Octavo (24cm); green cloth backstrip over paper-covered decorated boards, titled in gilt on the spine; 62pp. Faint foxing to a few text leaves and..... More