Batouala, First Edition (32 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. First American Edition. Name of previous owner inside front cover and gift note on ffep. Sketch from previous owner on half title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. First Edition. #662 of 1050. First Edition in English. Written originally in French, BATOUALA was awarded the PRIX GONCOURT in 1921.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket. First Edition. Brown cloth, brightly stamped in gilt on spine, map endpapers, fine in near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content has toning to page ends. Tatty DJ with some edge wear, fading and loss. Tape repairs.

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Translated from the French by Adele Szold Seltzer. 207pp. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine and front board. Front hinge loose, nick in spine. Fair cindition. Po's name on front lining page dated 1922. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Slight cover soiling, cleanable. Out of print and scarce. First Bonibooks edition. Binding is stiff wraps.

paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. First Edition. New York. 1974. November 1974. Fawcett. 1st Fawcett Premier Paperback edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Translated from the French by Barbara Beck & Alexandre Mboukou. 160 pages. paperback. Cover by Liebman. keywords: Caribbean Martinique Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - A scathing indictment against Colonial rule in the French Congo. Winner of the Prix Goncourt and considered by students of African literature as the first work by a black writer to signal the break from mission literature and a movement toward an oppositional voice to the colonial enterprise. Maran, born in Martinique of French Guiana parents, is regarded as the fountainhead of black French intellectual thought in the Caribbean and Africa and is credited with encouraging a generation of writers during his career. In writing of blacks under colonial rule in Africa's Congo region, Batouala triggered not only the harsh tone that black cultural expression was going to take from there on through the Negritude movement, but also set the pace for a universal idea of the black condition. inventory #34887.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 192pp hardback brown buckram spine over boards, printed labels to spine and front board, label to spine rubbed and discolored, gift inscription to ffep, Batouala was awarded the Prize Goncourt 1921, limited edition no. 359 of 1050 copies, 1000 for sale, a study of negro life in the French Congo ''If some passages.appear outspoken to English taste they form.this authentic portrayal of negro manners'.

First Edition, thus. 8vo, pp. 149. Translated by Barbara Beck and Alexandre Mboukou. Introduction by Donald E. Herdeck. Map on endpapers. Top edge slightly soiled, o/w a nice copy in somewhat scuffed and stained dj. A novel of pre-independence Equatorial Africa.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. First U.K. Edition. Limited to 743/1050 copies. Winner of the French 'Prix Goncourt, 1921'. VG. Hardcover, partial cloth, no jacket, 192 pp, two previous owners bookplates on back and front boards, corners bumped, edgewear to spine with light shelfwear, otherwise a clean and tight copy.

1st U.K. edition. 8vo. 192pp. F.e.ps. slightly browned. Original cloth backed boards with chipped green paper title label to beige spine, corners rubbed. Limited edition of 1050 copies, this one being unnumbered and marked "presentation." US$12.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. The first edition of this translation from the French. 207 pages, green boards with gilt printing. The spine lettering is faded, spine ends and cover corners rubbed. Former owner bookplate on the front pastedown. The contents show some very light foxing- but bright and complete. Good+.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Translated from the French by Adele Szold Seltzer. 207pp. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine and front board. Boards slightly rubbed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First English edition. Owner name on front fly with offsetting on flyleaves, tiny tear on spine label, chipping at the corners, very good lacking a dust jacket. One of 1050 numbered copies. *Blockson 101* #61.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First English-language edition of the author's "definitive edition" (see below). Introduction by Donald E. Herdeck. Translated by Barbara Beck and Alexandre Mboukou. Bookplate of historian, author, and African scholar Prosser Gifford on the half-title. Page edges faintly foxed, very near fine in a modestly rubbed and tanned, very good or better dust jacket. First published in 1921, *Batouala* received the Prix Goncourt the following year. The author's "édition définitive," from which this edition was translated, was published in 1938. Published here as part of the Dimensions of the Black Intellectual Experience series.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Wear to the spine ends, spine darkened thus very good copy of this important Caribbean novel, lacking the dustwrapper. *Blockson 101* #61.

192pp. 8vo. Original cloth-backed, paper covered boards, slightly worn. Offsetting to endpapers, pale foxing to preliminaries. A very good copy. First edition in English, limited to 1050 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. buff cloth spine, papered boards, blue labels with red lettering to spine and front cover, no dust jacket, 192 pp first UK edition ex-library front endpaper glued to front pastedown, owner's name top of half title page, library stamp to title page, covers worn.

Paris, Albin Michel, 1921. Un vol. au format in-12 (183 x 113 mm) de 189 pp., broché. Edition originale (avec mention de ''mille'' portée au premier palt). René Maran est né le 5 novembre 1887 sur le bateau qui amenait ses parents d'origine guyanaise à Fort-de-France, où sa naissance fut déclaré le 8 novembre 1887. Il y resta jusqu'à l'âge de sept ans et partit au Gabon, où son père, Héménéglide Maran, exerçait un poste administratif colonial. Il devint lui-même, après des études de droit, fonctionnaire colonial. Dans son ?uvre, Maran décrit notamment les excès du colonialisme, tout en étant Français de c?ur. Il fut le premier Noir à obtenir le prix Goncourt en 1921 avec ce roman, qualifié de roman nègre. Quelques claires rousseurs sur les plats ainsi que dans le corps d'ouvrage. Du reste, belle condition.

Leather Binding. Condition: Good. First Edition. Copy #1278 pf 1500 numbered copies signed by illustrator Miguel Covarrubias. A very good copy in original full brown leather stamped in blind; publisher's slipcase (light wear to slipcase; top of spine has a black stain).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American edition. Translated by Adele Szold Seltzer. Light rubbing on rear board, faint soil mark on bottom edge and rear board, near fine in a good only dust jacket with dampstains, a chip on the rear panel (affecting text), and a sunned spine that was once detached and has since been reattached (unevenly) with tape on the verso. Considered by students of African literature as the first work by a Negro to signal the break from mission literature and emit an oppositional voice to the colonial enterprise. Maran, born in Martinique of French Guiana parents, is regarded as the fountainhead of black French intellectual thought in the Caribbean and Africa and is credited with encouraging a generation of writers during his career. In writing of blacks under colonial rule in Africa's Congo region, *Batouala* triggered not only the harsh tone that black cultural expression was going to take from there on through the Negritude movement, but also set the pace for a universal idea of the Negro condition. *Blockson 101* #61. Scarce in jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition thus. Narrow 4to. Full calf, with dark brown stamped spine lettering, and embossed horizontal lines wrapping around the covers and spine. Translated by Alvah C. Bessie. Illustrated with line drawings and six full page color plates by Miguel Covarrubias. 116 pages, with a one page Glossary at end. Limited/signed. SIGNED by Covarrubias on the limitation page, but lacking a number. No other names or marks. Top of spine is worn. Slight abrasions on corners. Green slip case is poor, with a 3" piece missing from bottom panel, old tape repairs to top panel, and white lettering on narrow end panel has faded completely. An early Limited Editions Club title. Due to size and weight, international shipping at cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Covarrubias, Miguel (illustrator). First Edition Thus. First edition thus, hardcover in full brown leather, signed by Covarrubias, and marked no. 1370/1500 on the limitation page. The book has bumps with very short losses to leather at the spine ends and cover corners, foxing to head of text block with some spreading onto the covers, sunning with scrapes to the leather on the spine, and a previous seller's notes to the rear pastedown. Overall, this is a solid, tight, Near Very Good copy lacking its slipcase.

Hardcover. First American Edition. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine faded. ; 207 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. A Very fine copy in the very rare first issue pictorial dust jacket, very good, small chips, else very good rare thus, internally fine. Original gilt green cloth, this was the winner of the Grand Prix de Gonruncourt a la Paris. This was the first novel by a man of color, an Afro American about conditions in French Equatorial Africa to make it big, in Europe, it was a sensation, selling out over night, it reached London and New York in short order, Adele Selzer translation the original French edition. Rene Maran lived at that time in Martinique, but hailed from Africa.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Miguel Covarrubias (illustrator). 1st Edition. Small folio (8-1/2" x 13") bound in full blind-stamped brown leather, warn spine in slip case. Copy number 721 of 1500 with beautiful line drawings and color illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias who has SIGNED on the colophon page.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Edition originale. MARAN (René). - Batouala. Illustré de 18 gouaches de P.-E. Bécat gravées par Louis Maccard. Paris, Guillot, 1947. In-4 ; [4], 188, [2] pages., en feuille, couverture rempliée et illustrée, chemise et étui éditeur. Tirage limité à 418 ex le livre est bien complet de la préface envoyé à part et parfois manquante avec la lettre jointe de l'éditeur. Nous trouvons ici Paul Emile Bécat dan sun exercice de Gouaches , qui tranche avec son style plus répendu de pointes sèches. dans d'autres illustrés. René Maran (1887-1960) fait partie des Antillais et Guyanais envoyés en Afrique Équatoriale dans les années 1910 pour occuper des postes au sein de l'administration coloniale. À ce titre, il côtoya Félix Éboué, qui devint son ami : il exerça sur ce dernier une influence notable, en particulier en ce qui concerne la reconnaissance de la valeur des cultures africaines. Au demeurant, bien plus que son compatriote, René Maran combattit les travers de l'administration, jusqu'à se mettre en rupture avec elle. Il trouva, dans son expérience en tant qu'employé des colonies, la matière pour Batouala, où il est question des ravages engendrés par la colonisation. Rappelons que Batouala a obtenu le prix Goncourt en 1921, ce roman dénonce les abus du fait colonial. C'est le premier Français de couleur à recevoir ce prix. Lilyan Kesteloot nous dit « Considéré par les Noirs comme un précurseur de la négritude, il avouait qu'il la comprenait mal et avait tendance à y voir un racisme plus qu'une nouvelle forme d'humanisme. Il se voulait, par-dessus tout et avec obstination « un homme pareil aux autres ».

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, BATOUALA by René Maran. N° 391 of 400 copies on Rives Paper. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Lacovleff with 6 engravings. Black Moroccan leather and marbled paper. Elaborate gilt and red tool stamping titles on the spine with ribbed bars. Patterned black and grey decorative endpapers with the library label of Librairie Dion, Montreal on the inside cover. Some slight wear to the edges. Gilt edging. No markings. Pages slightly toned. Size: 7 3/4" x 9 3/4" pp.170 Near Fine. Very solid and straight. This is fine example of a luxurious and artistic presentation, reflecting the craftsmanship of fine bookmaking in the early 20th century. This Mornay edition of BATOUALA from 1928 is sought-after due to its beautiful illustrations by Lacovleff. His illustrations were known for their attention to detail complementing Maran's powerful narrative. BATOUALA is a novel written by René Maran, a French writer of African descent. First published in 1921, the book gained notoriety for its candid depiction of colonialism in French Equatorial Africa and was deeply controversial at the time. It became the first work by a Black author to win the prestigious Prix Goncourt in the same year.

Paperback. Condition: Very good+ condition. First Edition. VIII, 170 pages of text. All text and illustrations printed on Japon Imperial. Original wrappers are moderately shelfworn, with the front hinge weakened; minor restoration work has been performed. The original glassine wrapper has been replaced with a custom-fitted archival mylar sleeve. Number 23 of 40 "Sur Japon Imperial (Numerotes 11 a 50) Avec Un Dessin Original Et Une Suite Sur Annam De Toutes Les Illustrations." Many pages uncut and unopened; an excellent copy except for the front hinge which has rolled and has a small tear. In addition to numerous 59 in-text illustrations, it is illustrated with six dry-point etchings (all on Japon Imperial). Included is an original charcoal drawing by Alexandre Iacovleff of a seated figure with his arm outstretched and resting upon his knee, and his other arm resting what may be a pipe on the ground. The drawing is signed by the artist in lowercase initials "a. i." There is also an extra suite of 65 illustrations on Annan paper, including six etchings and all 59 in-text illustrations (excepting the numerous sketches that are head-piece (chapter heading) and tail-piece (chapter ending) illustrations. A few plates in the extra suite have tiny spots of discoloration and some soiling. A few pages of the book have a few very minor spots of soiling. Protected in a custom made clamshell box with a gilt-lettered spine label. Highly uncommon to encounter this publication complete with the original signed charcoal drawing and the extra suite of plates. The author considered this edition to be the definitive edition, although the text was originally published to great acclaim in 1921. First thus edition. Size: Quarto (4to). Signed by Author(s). Book.

First Edition. BATOUALA, Thomas Seltzer, 1922, first American edition, just about fine in a vg dust-wrapper missing a chip from the rear dust-wrapper panel. Most uncommon in dust-wrapper. A near classic of its kind, a tale of central Africa and the winner of the Prix Goncourt award.