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Published by London: George Routledge & Sons, 1936
Seller: Washington Square Autographed Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Book shows almost no wear. DJ in two pieces and missing spine. Erratum slip tipped in at page 5. "Part fiction, part autobiography, part satire, part folklore and anthropology, this book gives a picture of mid-African tribal life in contact with Western civilization." The DJ flap characterizes Nyabongo as "a younger brother of a ruling tribal potentate," "descended from a long line of African kings." A startlingly uncommon title. 278 pages.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition, first printing. xii, 312 pp. Illustrated. Bound in publisher's white cloth with orange paper labels, red topstain. Near Fine with a little dust-soiling, wear to cloth at head, in Very Good dust jacket, spine panel sunned, chipped at head, unclipped ($3.00) Rare in jacket. A novel by an Oxford-educated Ugandan anthropologist, also published as Africa Answers Back. Politically, Nyabongo was a pan-Africanist who collaborated with African American scholar, author, and activist W.E.B. DuBois. An obscure but significant African novel from the first half of the 20th century.