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Literature for the Masses: An Analytical Study of Popular Pamphleteering in Nigeria [Foreword by Chinua Achebe]

Dr. Emmanuel Obiechina. Chinua Achebe, foreword
Enugu, Nigeria: Nwamife Books, 1971. In illustrated red and white wraps. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. 84 pp.
A careful study of Onitsha Market Literature by the Nigerian academic Emmanuel Obiechina, with a foreword by the acclaimed novelist, poet, and critic, Chinua Achebe.

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El "Invencible

Stanislaw Lem
Ciudad de la Habana: Editorial Arte y Literatura, 1988. Very Good+. Ciudad de la Habana: Editorial Arte y Literatura, 1988. First Cuban Edition. Small octavo (18cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 231pp. Very light shelf wear, textblock a bit toned, else a Very Good or better copy.…
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Exiled Cuban author Antonio Benítez-Rojo's personal collection of his own books

Benítez-Rojo, Antonio
This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details.Collection of seven Havana-printed novels and collections of short stories all written by and belonging to Antonio Benítez-Rojo, 1967-1980, including some with his own editorial changes in pen. Initially aligned with…
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Jagua Nana

Cyprian Ekwensi
London: Hutchinson, 1961. Very Good/Very Good. London: Hutchinson, 1961. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); illustrated dust jacket by Dorothy Brooks; orange cloth boards with black lettering and decoration; 192pp. Price-clipped jacket shows a few brief tears at folds and chipping at spine ends,…
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Joyu Nana

Emile Zola; Kafu Nagai [trans.]; Hyakusui Hirafuku [cover design]
Tokyo, Japan: Shinseisha, 1903. Very Good. Tokyo, Japan: Shinseisha, [1903]. First Japanese Translation. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated wraps featuring a cover sketch of Nana by nihonga artist Hyakusui Hirafuku; 177,37pp; photographic illustration of Zola and one sketch of Nana copied from an…
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[MALAGASY LITERATURE - PRESENTATION COPY WITH ADDITIONAL SIGNED PROOF SHEETS BY AFRICA'S FIRST MODERN POET] Chants pour Abéone [Chants for Abéone]

Rabearivelo, Jean-Joseph
Tananarive (Antanarivo), Madagascar: Henri Vidalie, 1936. Quarto (31.5 × 23.8 cm). Original printed card folder with three flaps, housing a volume bound with braided green silk cord; 64 leaves printed to rectos on stiff cream paper (Canson-Voiron). Signed and inscribed with a four-line…
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Moriae encomium D. Erasmi Roterodami cu[m] Gerardi Listrii trium linguarum periti commentariis. Praemittuntur Ludus L. Annei Senec[ae], de morte Claudii, cu[m] scholiis Beati Rhenani. Synesius Cyrenen[sis] de Laudibus caluitii. Adduntur Martini Dorpii theologi ad Erasmum epistola et Erasmi ad eandem responsio apologetica

Erasmus, Desiderius (ca. 1466-1536)
Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1524. THE 1524 BADIUS ASCENSIUS EDITION. Written in 1509 as a visitor's gift to Thomas More, whose name -Morus- was so aptly similar to the Greek "moros," folly, the "Moriae Encomium" was first printed by Gilles de Gourmont at Paris, probably in 1511.…
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[ANTI-COLONIAL LITERARY JOURNAL FROM MOZAMBIQUE] Caliban. Nos. 1-4 in in three issues (all published)

Knopfli, Rui, and others
Lourenço Marques (today Maputo): self-published, 1971-1972. Octavos (21.6 × 15.1 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers; 32; [33-68; 69]-124 pp. with numerous, full-page author portraits. Slightly toned, else very good.
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