Postcolonial Literature from Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Selected Poems
by WALCOTT, Derek
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- 2007
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 2007. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo. (21.5cm.); aqua spine over light blue boards stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 307pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped (priced $25.00) dustjacket. Walcott received the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. Item Price
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Black Skin White Masks
by FANON, Frantz (text); MARKMANN, Charles Lam (translation)
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- 1968
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New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1968. First US Paperback Edition. First Printing. Octavo (17.75cm); pictorial card wrappers; [ii],[6],7-232 + [6]pp ads. A Fine, unread copy. Fanon's first book, originally published as Peau noire, masques blancs in 1952. "Written out of his experiences and observations as a Negro and a psychiatrist in the Antilles, this book is concerned with the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays
by [POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE] GLISSANT, Edouard (essays); DASH, J. Michael (translation)
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- 1989
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Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xlviii,272pp. Faint paperclip impression to upper margin of four leaves, else Near Fine. Dustjacket shows some trivial surface wear, mild creasing at crown, with a faint crease to upper front flap, and original price sticker to… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Mimic Men
by NAIPAUL, V.S.
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- 1967
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1967. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.25cm); rose-colored imitation cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-300,[4]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, front board corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with some faint finger-soil to right edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 25s. net), lightly edgeworn, with a bit of yellowing to… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Angolan Revolution, Volumes 1&2: The Anatomy of an Explosion (1950-1962) and Exile Politics and Guerrilla Warfare (1962-1976) [Presentation Copies, Inscribed]
by [AFRICA] [ANGOLA] MARCUM, John
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- 1969, 1978
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Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1969, 1978. First Editions. First Printings. Two octavo volumes (23.5cm); brown and black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt and silver on spines; dustjackets; xviii,380,[2]; xvi,473,[5]pp. Both volumes generously inscribed by the author to J. Wayne Fredericks, the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1961-67). Vol.1 reads: "Wayne / With… Read more about this item Item Price
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Writing Away from Home (Issued as Savacou no. 9/10)
by BRATHWAITE, Edward Kamau et al., eds.; John La Rose and Andrew Salkey, guest eds
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- 1974
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Kingston, Jamaica: Savacou Journal, 1974. First Edition. Quarto (24cm.); pictorial card wrappers by Aubrey Williams; 134pp.; illus. Light wear, corners bumped, gentle sunning to spine, with a faint diagonal crease to upper right corner of front wrapper; Very Good+. Double issue of the Caribbean literary journal Savacou, "A Journal of the Caribbean Artists Movement." Includes contributions by James Berry… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Wreath for Udomo
by ABRAHAMS, Peter
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- 1956
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London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-309,[3]pp. Faint foxing to cloth, text edges, and endpapers, else clean internally; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 15s net), gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn and dust-soiled, with two tiny tears and creases; Very Good+. The Black South African… Read more about this item Item Price
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Midsummer [Inscribed]
by WALCOTT, Derek
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- 1984
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New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (20.25cm); glossy pictorial wrappers; [x],54,[6]pp. Inscribed by the author in March, 1985 on the preliminary blank. Pencil underlining throughout the text, else sharp; Very Good+. Poems written by Walcott during a summer in Trinidad, centered around the relationship of poetry to painting, midsummer in the tropics,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Another Life
by WALCOTT, Derek
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- 1973
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.75cm); teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],151,[1]pp. Gentle sunning to spine, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.95), with modest external wear, several small tears and creases (two of them tape mended on verso), and a few faint spots of soil… Read more about this item Item Price
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Selected Poems
by WALCOTT, Derek
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- 1964
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1964. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); blue-gray paper and green cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; blue topstain; dustjacket; x,85,[1]pp. Upper board edges gently sunned, with topstain a bit dulled; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.00), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with some mild dustiness to rear panel,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sea Grapes [Review Copy]
by WALCOTT, Derek
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- First American Edition
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- 1976
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First American Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, a review copy, with the publisher's original publicity photo of the author laid in. Octavo (21.5cm); chickpea yellow cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [2],viii,83,[3]pp. Hint of foxing to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $8.95), with light… Read more about this item Item Price
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Freedom & Authority in French West Africa
by DELAVIGNETTE, Robert
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- 1968
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London: Frank Cass & Co, 1968. Second impression (first published 1950). Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 152pp. Ownership markings; single ink annotation to margin of first page of text; Very Good. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped lightly worn and faded; Very Good. A sound a serviceable reading copy. Item Price
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Slaves of the White Myth: the Psychology of Neocolonialism
by GLADWIN, Thomas
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- 1980
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Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1980. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Hardcover; dustjacket; 223pp. Fine, tight, unmarked copy in bright original dustwrapper, Near Fine. Item Price
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Non-Vicious Circle: Twenty Poems of Aimé Césaire
by CÉSAIRE, Aimé; Gregson Davis, transl
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- 1984
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Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1984. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 152pp. Fine, in bright dustwrapper with two tiny nicks at spine ends and a brief closed tear at upper margin of front panel, Very Good or better. Bilingual text (French & English); translated, with Introduction and Commentary, by Gregson Davis. Item Price
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A Plague of Europeans: Westerners in Africa Since the Fifteenth Century
by KILLINGRAY, David
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- 1973
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London: Penguin Education, 1973. First Edition. First impression. No cloth edition was issued. Square octavo (22cm); pictorial wrappers; 128pp; illus. Mild external wear and soil; small splash-stain to first two leaves; Very Good. An exploration, aimed at secondary-school readers, of the effects of colonialism on the African continent. Item Price
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Hammer Blows and Other Writings
by [POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE] DIOP, David Mandessi (Simon Mpondo and Frank Jones, transl & ed)
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- 1973
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Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973. First Edition. First printing. Small, slim octavo (20cm). Publisher's green cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 88pp. Cloth mildly sunned at upper board edges; jacket price-clipped; ownership signature to front endpaper (Latin American translator and editor Roberto Márquez); Very Good or better in a Very Good dustwrapper. Bilingual edition, with… Read more about this item Item Price
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Aime Cesaire [Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature]
by [AIMÉ CÉSAIRE] DAVIS, Gregson
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- 1997
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. First impression. Octavo; cloth hardcover, dustjacket; 208pp. Fine, unmarked copy in a barely edge-rubbed dustwrapper. Item Price
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Fanon. A Novel
by WIDEMAN, John Edgar
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- 2008
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth-backed boards (hardcover); 229pp. Fine and unmarked, in unclipped dustwrapper (priced $24.00 on front flap), barely edge-rubbed and with a slight crease at base of front flap, still very Near Fine. Item Price
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Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems
by ACHEBE, Chinua
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- 1973
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Garden City: Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1973. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (20.75cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [7],8-92,[4]pp. Trivial wear and dustiness to wrappers, hint of sunning to spine; Near Fine. Collection of early poetry by the celebrated Nigerian author, comprised of the 23 poems written for the Nigerian release of Beware, Soul Brother… Read more about this item Item Price
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China Poems
by BRUTUS, Dennis
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- 1975
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Austin: African and Afro-American Studies & Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 1975. First Edition. Oblong octavo (15cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 36pp; parallel text in English and Chinese. Mild creasing along the spine fold, tiny stain to lower left corner of rear wrapper; Very Good+ to Near Fine. South African Trotskyist and anti-apartheid activist's fifth book, a… Read more about this item Item Price
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