Soyinka (Wole) The Interpreters
£2,250
London, Andre Deutsch, 1965.
First edition. Signed by the author. 8vo. Original brown boards. Dust-jacket, priced 21s.
A rare signed first edition of this 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.RARE and out of print. A special edition paperback published to commemorate the World Black and African Festival of arts and culture held in Nigeria in 1977 and “dedicated to the spirit of African Cultural Re-awakening”. The book features works by the who’s who of Nigerian literature. They include Chinua Achebe, Onuora Nzekwe, Emmanuel Obiechina, and Mamman Vatsa.
Out of stock
Previous owner’s ink name to head of front free endpaper; boards with some minor bumping; dust-jacket with rubbing to extremities but overall very good.
Jacket artwork by William Belcher.
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