Search Results: i was a savage by modupe prince

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1957. LCC 75-83339, 185 pages, blue cloth with silver ltrs on spine, purple endpapers, top edges are shelf soiled, corners bumped. DJ is purple pictorial with white ltrs and is nicked and chipped on edges and corners with tear on lower back edge. Prince Modupe describes his childhood and youth among the So-So tribe of French West Africa and his final voyage to America.. Assumed First. Hard Cover. G++/G++.

New York: Praeger, 1969. Hardcover in navy cloth boards; in color illus jacket.. Fine unmarked; in Good+ unclipped jacket w some light wear & touch-ups.. Autobiography of aFrench West African native who eventually came to the US for a distinguished career. Solid clean bright HB copy with jacket. 5-3/4 x 8-1/2, 185 pp, purple endpapers.

London: Museum Press, 1958 A very good unmarked first edition copy, just slightly tilted. With b&w illstns. The dust jacket is intact and bright, light wear to folds.

London : Museum Press Limited, 1960. HARDCOVER . xii + 168, with illustrations & a sketch map by Rosemary Grimble. (Orig. Purple cloth with white. titles Pictorial dustjackter. Nice exlibris on first endpaper. First 5 pages start loosening, else VERY GOOD / AS NEW) RARE FIRST EDITION. A man who grew up in a remote tribe, who is now able to write about this experience.

London: Museum Press, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Rosemary Grimble. This is inscribed in pencil on the front end paper, and also has a little hand-written card inserted from Elspeth (Huxley) who wrote the Foreword. Illustrated dust-jacket, some edge-wer, stable inside a clear protective cover. Book bound in purple cloth with silver titles and a silver decoration on the front. Rather a severe damp stain to the bottom corner, front and rear. A slight forward roll to the spine. Pages smooth and clean, nicely illustrated by Rosemary Grimble.