John Okai (11 results)
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Tim's Used Books Provincetown Mass., Provincetown, MA, U.S.A.Tim's Used Books Provincetown Mass.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No marks in text. Not a library book. Dust jacket shows very little wear; not price-clipped. Ships, with tracking, in a cardboard enclosure. Tim's Used Books, open shop in Provincetown, Mass., providing good books at reasonable prices on the same spo…t since 1991. Shelf O/brown.
Language: English
Published by Institue of African Studies, Legon, Ghana 1969
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: David Gaines, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.David Gaines
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Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First. Very good in original wraps, handling wraps, minor soiling back wraps. 140p., name of this periodical is an African word beginning w/ backward CKYEAME. Interesting literary magazinein English w/ poems, fiction, reviews(The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born). Poem by John Okai…, Fugue For Waterfrogs. A. N. Mensah story The White Man in 'Double-House'. Florence Dolphyne on conferene on the study of Ghanaian languages. Kedjanyi, John (illustrator).
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Bolerium Books Inc.
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Hardcover. 158p., remainder mark on bottom edge, some lean to spine otherwise a very good first edition in boards and unclipped, lightly rubbed and sunned dust jacket. Ghana-born poet's first book. He earned an MA in literature at the Gorky Literary Inst. in Moscow.
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York 1971
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.MARK POST, BOOKSELLER
Contact seller5-star sellerHard Cover. First Edition, First printing. Stated First Printing. FINE BOOK IN VERY GOOD+ DUST JACKET WITH $6.95 PRICE, SLIGHT RUBBING, AND LIGHTLY SUNNED SPINE.
Published by Simon and Schuster, 1971 1971
- First Edition
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst printing Near fine and bright in like dustjacket. Clean text. Small mark to bottom edge. With an introduction by C. Eric Lincoln. Title poem is dedicated to Walt Whitman. Strong praise from Stanley Kunitz.
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York 1971
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.The Chatham Bookseller
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 158 pp. Tan cloth with black lettering on spine. Binding and text block are fine except for minor bumps to spine ends: clean, square and tight throughout. Illustrated, unclipped dust jacket is slightly ribbed and has general soiling and shelf wear.… Okai's first major collection of poetry. The musicality of his poetry has been attributed to influences dating back to his early years in the ambience of North Ghana, which is rich in music-dominated idioms, and he has performed his work widely on radio, television and to live audiences. Okai wa the First Secretary-General of the Pan African Writers Association. Publisher's advance copy card laid in. Size: 8vo. Book.
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York 1971
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First American edition. Light offsetting on the endpapers else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some toning.
Language: English
Published by Writers Forum, London 1969
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, , United KingdomThe Bookshop at Beech Cottage
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Soft cover. Condition: Good++. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Five experimental narrative-style poems written by John Okai. Based on his lived experiences in Ghana. Staple bound within white card covers. Black illustration on front cover by Agye Nyame. This is booklet Number 25 in the Writers Forum Poets series. Yellow end papers and s…eparate poem title pages. Gift inscription on title page - For William Oxley with best wishes - signed by the author and dated 12/6/69. The Oxleys' neat ownership stamp also on title page. Toning to margin edges of front and rear covers. Crease to top and tail of spine. Otherwise in VG condition. Now protected in an archival envelope. Agye Nyame (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).
- Hardcover
Seller: SHIMEDIA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.SHIMEDIA
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- Hardcover
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.BennettBooksLtd
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Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.
Published by Writers Forum No. 25 June 1969 1969
- First Edition
Seller: Yesterday's Books, BOURNEMOUTH, , United KingdomYesterday's Books
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27 single-sided typed duplicated pages, Agye Nyame symbol design to front cover : 5 poems from this excellent Ghanaian poet & Fellow of the R.S.A. whose rhythms & style are much influenced by his African traditions; thin card covers, stapled SCARCE FIRST EDITION west africa ghana ghanaian poetry poems ghana verse okai ghana poet… ghana poems african poetry.
