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By: Abani, Chris
Price: $65.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2004
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 8953
This copy of "GraceLand" has been SIGNED by Chris Abani on the title page! A dazzling debut - this gorgeously written, haunting novel is set in Maroka, a sprawling, swampy, crazy and colorful ghetto of Lagos, Nigeria, and unfolds against a backdrop of lush reggae and highlife music, American movies, and a harsh urban existence. Named as Winner of the 2005 PEN/Hemingway Award. This copy signed by the author from his appearance at the University of Pennsylvania. View more info
By: Achebe, Chinua
Price: $175.00
Publisher: London, UK, Contemporary Fiction: 1962
Edition: Book Club (Contemporay Fiction- UK
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 6600
This copy has been boldly SIGNED by Chinua Achebe on the title page. First published in the UK by Heinemann in 1960 - this is a UK book club edition with Newsletter enclosed which features this title as their Number 1 choice in August 1962. In this, his second novel, he tells the story of Okonkwo’s grandson, Obi, who learns to fit into British colonial society. Raised as a Christian and educated in England, Obi abandons the countryside for a job as a civil servant in L... View more info
By: Achebe, Chinua [David Carroll]
Price: $185.00
Publisher: New York, NY, St. Martin's Press: 1980
Edition: Second Edition (Printed in UK)
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 6601
This is a Second Edition of the critical study of Chinua Achebe (SIGNED by Achebe) the most widely known African writer. An earlier version of this study first appeared in 1970 - this second edition represents an updating and reflects significant new writings by Achebe since that time. The introduction to this critical study by David Carroll presents the context in which Achebe writes - the traditional ways of his own Igbo society, and the European contact with Africa. I... View more info
By: Achebe, Chinua [David Carroll]
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Twayne Publishers, Inc: 1970
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Seller ID: 7652
Chinua Achebe is one of the most impressive of the African novelists writing at the present time. His novels describe with wit and dignity the traditional way of life of a West African people before the coming of the white man.This study, the first extensive discussion of Achebe's novels, examines the various aspects of this confrontation, and also the techniques by which it is articulated. Europe and Africa meet and interact not only in the drama of events, but also in ... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Other Press: 2019
Edition: First American Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 8880
This copy of the American Edition of "The Hundred Wells of Salaga" has been SIGNED by Ayesha Harruna Attah on the title page! Based on the experiences of the author's great-great-grandmother in precolonial Ghana, a story of courage, forgiveness, love, and freedom told through the eyes of two women born to vastly different fates. Signed by her during her appearance at the Sunday Book Brunch at the Princeton Public Library on February 10, 2019. An outstanding collection b... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Abuja, Nigeria, Cassava Republic Press: 2018
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 8881
This copy of "The Hundred Wells of Salaga" has been SIGNED by Ayesha Harruna Attach on the title page! This is the "true" first edition publisghed by Per Ankh Publishers, Senegal, West Africa and she has also written "medasse pass" meaning "Thank You for Your Purchase from Africans for Africa" and is dated 02/10/2019. Here, Attah expertly juggles the grand, brutal scope of Ghana's history with the mysteries of her family's past. Also explo... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: London, UK, World Editions Limited: 2015
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 8882
This copy of "Saturday's Shadows" has been SIGNED by Ayesha Harruna Attach on the title page! The protagonists of "Saturday's Shadows" experience the fine line between sanity and madness as they try to find and hold on to love in the volatile world of 1990s West Africa. issued only as Trade Paperbacks. This copy has also been dated 02/10/2019 by her as well with her inscription: "medaase paa!" meaning "Thank You for your Purchase from Africans for Africa." Born in Ghana ... View more info