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New York: Bantam, 1954. First Bantam printing. Light creases to the spine. A little edge wear.. Paperback. Good.

Bantam Books. New York: Bantam Books, Inc. , 1956 reprint. 1479 near fine Cover by Barye Phillips. paperback,

bantam paperback #858 good condition.

London: Transworld Publishers (Corgi Books S643) 1959 Second Corgi Paperback Printing, 1959 Good reading copy. Cover art by John Richards.

corgi books, UK, 1959 first edition. 643 very good paperback,

Indianapolis/New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good+ in Good dj. (c.1934). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (price-clipped) [book is slightly faded at spine, otherwise solid and clean with light age-toning to page edges; jacket has a somewhat jagged rip in spine (with a bit of paper loss, not affecting any text), and is split about halfway down the front fold, with several associated diagonal creases in the top right section of the front panel] Hahn's fourth book and second novel, drawing on her experiences living with a pygmy tribe in the Belgian Congo for two years in the early 1930s. She had previously published "Congo Solo," a nonfiction account of her time there, but here she spins the tale of a native woman, Mawa, and her relationships with four successive white "husbands" (for whom she served as a combination housekeeper and mistress), one of whom is the father of the mixed-race son to whom she is most devoted. Of the four men, it's ironically… Read More

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1934). First edition. Octavo, blue cloth, pp. 302. An early novel by the well known writer for the New Yorker. Small stain to top page edge, page edges a bit darkened, else very good in a good dust jacket, with many small edge chips and one larger chip (1 & 5/8") at the base of the front panel. None of the chipping affects the type on the jacket. Scarce in any sort of dust wrapper..

Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs Merrill Company, 1934. Stated first edition, 1934. Fair to good in a fair to good dustajcket. Black cloth printed in green, 302 pages, with dustjacket. The upper corner of the front cover is bumped (pages not affected), semi-gloss cloth coating dulled at the outer and lower edges of both covers, very subtle lean to binding, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [2.00] and has age-darkening and light speckling to the white background of the rear panel and inner flaps, chips to extremities that do not interfere with lettering. Novel of a woman native to the Congo who lived life on her own terms.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.