Sachs (Wulf) Black Hamlet
£225
London, Geoffrey Bles, 1937.
First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, 10s6d.
“In Black Hamlet perhaps for the first time the soul of the negro is laid bare.” (jacket blurb). A somewhat chilling psychoanalytical undertaking to delve into the mind of “John”, a young man from Manyikaland who had moved to the city.
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Cloth a little rubbed; jacket browned and soiled worn at spine with loss.
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