A Library of Niger Delta Stories
Ibadan: Oputoru Books, 1999. Hardcover. (12), 147p. 21cm. No Jacket. More
Ibadan: Oputoru Books, 1999. Hardcover. (12), 147p. 21cm. No Jacket. More
New York: Praeger Publishers, (c. 1976). Hardcover. xviii, 413p. Brown binding. 24cm. No jacket. More
London: Printed by S. Crowes and Sons, [1839]. Paperback. 8p. leaflet. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 22cm. Carelessly opened along top edge. Lightly browned. No separate wrapper. One of the objects of this organization, in addition to opposing the slave trade, was to support an 1841 British expedition up..... More
New York: Random House, (c. 2005). 2nd printing of the American edition. Paperback. xxiv, 145p, Softcover in original wrapper. 21 cm. Minor wear only. SIGNED by Soyinka on title-page. First published in the U.K. by Profile books in 2004 as "The Climate of Fear." More
New York: Random House, (c. 1981). 3rd Printing of American ed. Hardcover. 230p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 24 cm. Bottom edge bumped on back cover. One corner tip has minor paper loss. SIGNED on title-page by Soyinka. Autobiographical account of his first eleven years (1934-1944). More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, xii, 208p. Original hardcover binding (yellow boards backed in red cloth). dj. 21 cm. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper by Soyinka ("For Yvette Wole Soyinka"). More
New York: Random House, (c. 1989). 1st ed. Hardcover. vi, 262p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 24 cm. Minor spotting (tiny white spots, mostly near bottom of front panel). SIGNED on title-page by Soyinka. Laid in is two page promotional item (on a single sheet) for the book with an excerpt..... More
New York: Random House, (c. 2006). 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, xx, 499p. Original boards. dj. 24 cm. SIGNED by Soyinka (with his scrawl) on title-page. An autobiographical work. More
Paris: Colin, 1907. Deuxieme edition. Hardcover. folding map, 272p. Rebound in later 1/2 cloth. 18cm. French text. More
London: Hodder & Stoughton and Arthur H. Wheeler & Co., n.d. (Preface dated 1910; someone has inked that date toward bottom of title-page]. 1st ed. Hardcover. [8], 151p. Original black, yellow and green cloth. 23cm. Lacks front free endpaper. Old browning where tape once connected the now almost completely detached..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This volume only (of 2). photos, index, xv, 217p. Blue cloth. dj. 22cm. Jacket edge-wear and other light wear and soiling . Former owner's name stamp. Vol. II (not present here) was titled: African Independent Church: The Life and Faith of the..... More
[Ibadan]: University of Ibadan, 1973-1974. Paperback. Softcover in original wrappers. 22cm. The final pamphlet has some narrow stains along fore-edge; all are otherwise sound and clean. We don't know how many of these pamphlets were issued during this two year period. More
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, n.d. [1920]. Hardcover. frontis, photos, index, 526p. Red cloth. 26cm. . Backstrip slightly faded. Partially unopened. Top edge gilt. No jacket. An attractive copy. Unwin identified on title-page as "Late Senior Conservator of Forests, Nigeria." Unwin states in the Preface that he mainly..... More
New York: Peter Lang, (1991). Hardcover. index, xiv, 350p. Laminated boards. 23cm. No Jacket (probably as published). INSCRIBED by Utuk. More
New York: Barnes & Noble, (1967). Hardcover. xxii, viii, 335p. dj. 22cm. Reprint of the 1877 edition with a new introduction by A. G. Hopkins. Also published in the UK by Frank Cass. More
Gwagwalada: Precise Media Concepts, (1999). Paperback. 4 portraits, xiv, 81p. Wrapper. 21cm. Inexpensively produced; the portraits are grainy. More
Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University, 1969. Paperback. xxvi, 617p. Original tall wrapper. 33cm. More