Search Results: Signed first editions by achebe

Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1989. Poems from formerly Portuguese colonies in Africa, with English translations opposite. INSCRIBED by the translator/editor to a colleague who had served as president of the African Literature Association. Paperback, as pictured. Light wear, dent & creasing to upper front cover, minor chips to spine ends. Text clean; xix, blank, 193 pages + 9-page list of other titles in the publisher's Monographs in International Studies series. . Inscribed by the Translator. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 5½" by 8½".

London: Heinemann, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Inscribed by Achebe on the title page. About Fine. Faintly rubbed and faded at the spine and edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of stories written since 1942 and gathered from all across Africa, including works from Achebe, Owoyele, Gurnah, Ngugi, Essop, Gordimer, among others.

Doubleday, 1988-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed. First edition, first printing. Signed by Achebe on the title. Story about a group of friends caught up in a corrupt regime in a fictional African country.

New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1988. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1988. First U.S. Edition. Signed by Achebe without inscription at title page. Octavo. 216 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Orange and purple boards stamped in silver; tan endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket worn and wrinkled along edges with mild chipping and soiling. Boards shelfworn and spine ends nudged. Slight lean to boards but binding is sound. Foxing to edges of text block and overzealous rubbing/erasing to preliminaries, but interior unmarked. Still a Very Good copy; scarce signed.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1966. First Edition. First Impression, preceding the U.S. edition published the same year. Octavo (20.25cm); brick red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [vi],166,[4]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Three corners gently bumped (though still sharp), one dog-eared corner smoothed-out, with two small stains to upper edge of textblock; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 18s. net), shelfworn and spine-sunned, with some soiling and staining to panels and extremities; Very Good. Achebe's fourth novel, published after his 1962 elevation to editor of the Heinemann African Writers Series, and considered somewhat prophetic of the crisis that would engulf Nigeria between 1966-1970. It is a story of political corruption in a fictional African country, which ends in a coup. "Hardly had A Man of the People been published than Nigeria had its first coup, in January 1966, led by junior officers predominantly of Igbo origin. There… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1963. Signed by Author. (London: Heinemann African Writers Series 1963). First UK Edition Thus. A Softback. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. African Writers Series No. 3. Illustrated by Bruce Onobrakpeya. A VG+ copy with a slightly darkened spine. Inscribed by the Author to the title page: "For Adelaide Hill/ with regards/ Chinua Achebe". Scarce with these attributes. Photographs/scans available upon request.

New York: The John Day Company, 1967. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Chinua Achebe on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original magenta cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with light dust-soiling and light fading to cloth at edges, pages lightly tanned and faintly foxed at textblock edge. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with fraying to the spine ends, rubbing to the rear panel, foxing and toning to the blindside. The Nigerian author's third novel, the last of The African Trilogy.