Search Results: the palm wine drinkard and his dead by tutuola amos

UsedGood. Ninth paperback printing. Cover scuffed, generally worn with age. Small permanent marker scribble on cover. Text clean and unmarked. Good copy.

New York:: Grove Press,, (1982.). Good only (prev owner's name, toning to the pages.). Trade paperback. A novel originally published in 1953, perhaps the best known work by this important Nigerian writer. Cover praise from Dylan Thomas who called it a 'brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching story.' 130 pp.

New York, NY Grove Press: Evergreen, 1953. Paperback First Edition Thus [1953], Seventeenth Printing (1978). Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of careful use: very slight spine lean; moderate wear to the extremities; a hint of a crease near the lower corner of the rear panel; faint foxing to the inside of the front cover and to the outside edges; a price has been neatly removed from both panels; the pages have tanned fairly heavily, due to aging; mild rubbing and faint overall soiling to wrapper covers; a former owner's name at the top edge of the text block and the title page; the binding remains secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Shows moderate wear, but remains clean, sturdy, presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches). 130 pages. Language: English. Weight: 5 ounces. Wrapper covers designed in orange, black and brown. E-328. First Edition… Read More

New York, NY: Grove Press / Black Cat, January 1984. First Thus. Hardcover . Very Good. First Black Cat mass market edtion. Cover design by David Reau Johnson. Back cover photo of Amos Tutuola by Caroline Forbes. Marginal darkening of interior pages. Heavy foxing/dust staining. [130 pages]

Grove Press, 30682. Mass Market Paperback. New. In shrink wrap.

Grove Press, 1984-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Good condition with wear and markings, ex-library.

Random House USA Inc, 1988-11-15. Hardcover. Good.

Grove Press, 1953-11-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [126]. Original red cloth, spine lettered in green. Spine and boards sunned (latter, unevenly), gentle bruising and wear to spine ends and top corners, rear board a little soiled. Shallow denting to fore-edges of text block, POI in blue ink to POI: "Doreen & Walter Newlyn/ Ibadan. 23.12.53," offsetting to endpapers. Else, clean and tight. A continent-hopping copy of Tutuola's first novel with an interesting academic provenance. Good+ Amos Tutuola's first novel � a ludic, irreverent tall tale of weird encounters inspired by Yoruba folklore � immediately brought him to (divergent) critical attention, and rapidly achieved cult status, "creating its own genre, setting its own rules, and enthralling its expanding coterie" (Soyinka, 2014). Occupying a contentious position in the canon of African literature(s), The Palm-Wine Drinkard has been subject to various interpretations, from "an extended folktale in search of syntax" to a forerunner of magical realism, a linguistic… Read More

New York: Grove Press, 1953. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good/good. First American edition of The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola.. Small octavo, 130pp. Hardcover, title in white on cloth spine. Stated "First Printing" on copyright page. Solid text block, dampstaining to front cover and spine, sunning to edges, foxing to endpapers. In publisher's dust jacket, $2.75 retail price on front flap, sunning to spine, dampstaining visible on verso, a touch of wear to edges. An important work in the African literary canon, despite initial criticism.

Faber and Faber, 1952-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Tears to jacket with loss. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Pages unmarked. 125 p., 21 cm. <br> The Palm Wine Drinkard, in full The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town, novel by Amos Tutuola, published in 1952 and since translated into many languages. Written in the English of the Yoruba oral tradition, the novel was the first Nigerian book to achieve international fame. The story is a classic quest tale in which the hero, a lazy boy who likes to spend his days drinking palm wine, gains wisdom, confronts death, and overcomes many perils in the course of his journey. It has thematic links to The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, a work that profoundly influenced many Nigerian writers.

London: Faber & Faber Ltd. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Eps darkened. 1952. First Edition. Orange hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 125pp. .

London: Faber and Faber Ltd,, 1952. A classic of modern African literature First edition, first impression, of Tutuola's first published novel, which brought him international recognition. "He could hardly have had more distinguished literary godparents, because it was T.S. Eliot at Faber and Faber who recommended that his first book, The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town, should be published in 1952 and it was Dylan Thomas who gave it its first prominent review, when he praised this 'brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching... tall, devilish story'. The Palm-Wine Drinkard has become a classic of modern African literature, widely taught and successfully adapted as a folk opera in Nigeria. In it Tutuola retells many of the stories he first heard as a child in Abeokuta, a Yoruba-speaking town in western Nigeria where he was born in 1920" (Niven). The son of a cocoa farmer, Tutuola attended several schools before training as a blacksmith, and later working as a civil… Read More

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 125pp. Red cloth with black to spine. Lightly bumped at the spine foot, and some light toning to the cloth at the spine foot, very faint, almost like a very faint water spot, but not very noticeable, interior clean throughout and the binding tight and square. Dust jacket not clipped, very shallow chipping to the spine head and some creasing to the upper rear cover, but overall a really nice crisp copy of this scarce first edition.