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Lot 238
TUTUOLA AMOS. The Palm-Wine Drinkard. Orig. red cloth in d....
1/9
Hammer
£190
TUTUOLA AMOS. The Palm-Wine Drinkard. Orig. red cloth in d.w., priced 10s 6d. Stain to lower outer corner of top brd., otherwise a nice copy in v.g. d.w. (designed by Barnett Freedman). 1st edition, Faber, 1952. First novel by this Nigerian author and the first African novel published in English outside of Africa. '"Praised" by Dylan Thomas as this `brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching, tall, devilish story'.
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