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.

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: 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: John Day, (1967). First U.S. edition. SIGNED BY ACHEBE on the title page. Final book in his acclaimed African trilogy. Winner of the first-ever Jock Campbell/New Statesman Prize for African writing. Near fine to fine with gilt spine lettering just slightly dulled; in near fine dust jacket with light shelf wear. Scarce signed.

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.