Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart First Edition
Heinemann
1958
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A first edition first printing of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.
- Chinua Achebe (Nigerian).
- London / Melbourne / Toronta: Heinemann, (1958).
- [viii], 188 pages.
- One of 2000 copies.
- Original full orange cloth, in original price-clipped color pictorial jacket designed by C.W. Bacon.
"Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten."
First in the Nigerian author's African trilogy, which also includes No Longer At Ease (1960) and Arrow Of God (1964), Things Fall Apart was selected by Time magazine on one of its "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005," and by the BBC for its "100 Novels That Shaped Our World." An enduring and landmark book, central to the development of the 20th-centuy novel in English.
Condition Report
Very GoodFaint sunning to spine.
Some minor edgewear, soil.
Crease to rear flap.
Cloth sunned at spine, with some mottling here and there.
Minor shelf wear, foxing to extremities.
Previous owner's name penned to front pastedown.
Product is used.
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