Soyinka (Wole) The Interpreters
£395
London, Andre Deutsch, 1965.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown boards. Dust-jacket, priced 21s.
The first of only three novels by the Nigerian playwright, novelist and Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka, set in the 1960s, in post-independence and pre-civil war Nigeria, mainly in Lagos. Professor Soyinka recently celebrated his 90th birthday and a host of events were staged around the world to commemorate the occasion including the release of two documentaries and a feature film centred around his work and life.
In stock
Previous owner’s ink name to head of front free endpaper, slight damage to front pastedown; boards very good; dust-jacket with edge-wear, some loss to head of spine.
Jacket artwork by William Belcher.
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