Publication details: Faber and Faber,1952,
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An important book, one of the first novels by an African writer writing in English. The Nigerian author's most successful work, published under the recommendation of T.S. Eliot, and subsequently praised by Dylan Thomas, Kingsley Amis, V.S. Pritchett, et al; Tutuola blends a Yoruba folk-tale sensibility with a contemporary realism.
FIRST EDITION, pp. 125, crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in black and red (against a black ground), free endpapers with faint partial browning, Barnett Freedman dustjacket, a hint of sunning to the backstrip panel, shallowest of chipping to extremities, very good
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