Published by Grove Press (edition ), 1993
ISBN 10: 0802133630 ISBN 13: 9780802133632
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Published by Faber & Faber (edition Main), 2014
ISBN 10: 0571316913 ISBN 13: 9780571316915
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Published by Grove Press.
Seller: The Book Den, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Very good or better.
Published by Grove/Atlantic, 1971
ISBN 10: 0394173244 ISBN 13: 9780394173245
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.53.
Published by Grove Pr (edition ), 1962
ISBN 10: 0802131050 ISBN 13: 9780802131058
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Published by Faber, London, 1978
Seller: Weathered Stone Books, Skreen, SLIGO, Ireland
Wraps. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No d/w. New and Revised Edition. 174pp; A bright copy; Size: 12mo. Book.
Published by Grove Press, 1971
ISBN 10: 0394173244 ISBN 13: 9780394173245
Seller: Southampton Books, Sag Harbor, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First Edition Thus, 2nd Printing (1970). Not price-clipped ($1.95 price intact). Published by Grove Press, 1954. Octavo. Book is very good with toning to the page ends. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1956
Seller: Works on Paper, DeKalb, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. a very good copy of the first softcover edition (1956: pre-ISBN). Previous owners' modest address label atop the front endsheet, else the text is unmarked. Moderate wear at the extremities, but no creasing to the spine.
Published by Faber and Faber, 1969
ISBN 10: 0571058671 ISBN 13: 9780571058679
Seller: Qwertyword Ltd, Okehampton, DEVON, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Clean and bright. Oxford education sticker and stamp in front cover. 1969 reprint of Faber 1964 edition. Cover shows some handling wear with some rubbing wear to edges and a little fading to the spine.
Published by Grove Press,, NY:, 1970
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. E-559. First Evergreen printing (paperback). Very good in illustrated wraps.
Published by London: Faber & Faber, (1964), 1964
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First paperback printing. The second novel by this Nigerian author, who based his books on Yoruba folktales and traditions. First published in 1954, this tells the story of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a wild and grotesque African forest, where he is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs. With a foreword by Geoffrey Parrinder. 174 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name - that of the poet Elizabeth La Place [Harrod] on the first page).
Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1964
Seller: HOWLGLEN, Seven Valleys, PA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Square and completely unmarked copy with moderate shelving wear and light age toning; appears unread and retains a strong and supple spine for reading. 1st THUS.
Published by Grove Press, 1970
Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 150pp. Pictorial soft cover with title and title on spine. First Evergreen Edition 1970. First printing. Nothing else written in English can be compared with the fantastic books of the Nigerian storyteller Amos Tutuola.
Published by faber and faber, london, 1964
Seller: broken wing books, Blaine, MN, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Flat uncreased spine, appears unread.
Published by Siruela, 2008
ISBN 10: 8498412099 ISBN 13: 9788498412093
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 152 pages. Spanish language. 8.43x5.43x0.63 inches. In Stock.
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Published by Faber, 1954
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. UK hardback second impression. Good overall, a solid copy with small previous owner name and a small Foyles sticker inside front pastedown. There is some grubbiness to boards in places, softening to board corners and a few knocks to boards edges. No jacket.
Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1964
Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Fine. First paperback ed. Octavo in white wraps printed in green and orange; 174 pages 18 cm. Faber paper covered editions; Variation: Faber paper covered editions. [series]. The adventures of an African boy who strays into the world of the dead where his is lost for twenty-four years. Incorporates many unrecorded African myths. Contents: The Meaning of "Bad" and "Good" -- In the Bush of Ghosts -- The Smelling-Ghost -- My Life in the 7th Town of Ghosts -- My Life with Cows -- A Cola Saved Me -- At a Ghost Mother's Birthday Function -- My First Wedding Day in the Bush of Ghosts -- On my Way to the 9th Town of Ghosts -- River-Ghosts. Gala-day under the River -- In the 20th Town of Ghosts -- In the Spider's Web Bush -- The Short Ghosts and their Flash-eyed Mother -- Barbing Day in the Town of Short Ghosts -- I become an Aggressor for Ghosts -- The Super Lady -- In the Nameless-town -- Where Woman Marries Woman -- Hopeless-town -- On the Queer Way to Homeward -- Lost or Gain Valley -- Son Divides Us -- I meet my Dead Cousin in the 10th Town of Ghosts -- Invisible Magnetic Missive sent to Me from Home -- Bad-bye Function -- Television-handed Ghostess -- Hard to say "No" and Hard to say "Yes" -- The Future-Sign Tree -- Gladness becomes Weeping. Folklore -- Nigeria -- Fiction. Folklore. Yoruba (African people) Folklore -- Nigeria -- Fiction Rock music -- 1971-1980 Yoruba (African people) -- Folklore -- Fiction Fiction. Nigerian fiction (English) Geographic: Nigeria. Class Descriptors: LC: PR6070.U8; Dewey: 828.9108; NLC: PR9387.9.T8 Responsibility: With a foreword by Geoffrey Parrinder. Fine; as new.
Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.
Published by Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1954
Seller: Amnesty Bookshop, Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, second impression. In a red cloth hardcover with red titles on a silver background to spine. No dust jacket. 174 pp. The book is in very good condition with just very minor shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover. The binding is tight. There is very light tanning to the extremities of the pages which are otherwise clean and unmarked.
Published by Grove Press, New York, 1954
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First American edition from British sheets. Modest offsetting on the endpapers, small chip at bottom of titlepage and contents page, and a moderate stain on the front board, thus good lacking the dust jacket. An African fantasy that examines folk beliefs about the spiritual world and what happens to a mortal who wanders into the "bad bush" and the world of ghosts. Nigerian author's second novel.
Published by Faber & Faber, 1954
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1954 Faber & Faber Hardback 1st edition 2nd impression. Very good clean tight copy, dustjacket has been laminated to the book. Probaly ex-library , but no stamps. Decorative endpapers as shown.
Published by Grove Press, New York, 1954
ISBN 10: 0786701897 ISBN 13: 9780786701896
Seller: Shade of the Cottonwood, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Very good condition hardcover. Unread or very lightly read with tight binding and free of owner's marks. Text block age-toned with foxing on and adjacent to pasted-down sheets. Base edge text block bumped and top/bottom spine knocked. White marks are base edge coverboards from painted shelf. Dust jacket, such as it is, is in three pieces consisting of front cover, and both flaps*. Missing spine and rear cover. These pieces are also damaged. *The "rear" flap refers to the Palm-wine Drinkard by the same author. Without another example to refer to, only a probability it is flap to "Ghosts".
Published by Faber & Faber, 1954
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition. 174 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Visible wear and sticker marks to spine and panels.
Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1954
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First English Edition. 174pp.Bold Red cloth, silver spine label is pristine. Neat previous owner name, date on the upper right corner of the title page. Light toning to the pages, otherwise a beautiful copy. Unclipped Green and red jacket with yellow lettering has tiny chips on the upper corners. in mylar sleeve. Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying beings. He is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs, but after several years he marries and accepts his new existence. With the appearance of the television-handed ghostess, however, comes a possible route of escape." Size: Octavo.
Published by Faber and faber, London, 1954
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First edition. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. 174pp. Red cloth with silver accented spine in dust jacket. First edition with "First published in mcmliv" on copyright page and no additional printings ntoed. Foreword by Rev. Geoffrey Parrinder. Previous owner's name stamp on front free endpaper. Some discoloration to the free endpapers. Original price of 12s. 6d. present on front flap. A few tiny closed tears to the top of the jacket. The author's second novel. Listed in Time Magazine's "The 100 Best Fantasy Books of all Time" (2020) where Tutuola is described as ".uniquely synthesizing the Yoruba culture he was born into with that of the British and Christian colonialism under which he matured into adulthood. The book, Tutuola's second, tells the story of a west African child who is forced for 24 years to navigate an incomprehensible wilderness filled with fantastical beings, most of whom are, as the title suggests, some form of ghost." Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.
Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1954
Seller: edward syndercombe, Pretoria, GAUTE, South Africa
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1954 hardcover with dust jacket. 1st edition. The book is in very good condition to near fine condition. clean, square and tight. The dust jacket is also very good/near fine condition. clean and bright. chips to extremities. Berthold Wolpe dj. see photos.
Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1954
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 12s.6d Cloth VG; jacket chipped at corners and spine ends with slight loss, but otherwise VG. The tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying beings. A key work of modern African literature, a companion-piece to Tutuola's first book The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952).
Published by Faber & Faber, Inc, London, 1954
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition, first printing. 174 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with a few bumps to boards, foxing to contents, name written on front free endpaper, in a Very Good slightly foxed and chipped dust jacket, unclipped (12s. 6d. net). The Nigerian writer's second published novel.
Published by New York: Grove Press, 1954, 1954
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First US edition, first printing, of the author's scarce second book, following The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952), which T. S. Eliot at Faber recommended for publication, gaining Tutuola international recognition. "Among the earliest Nigerian fictional writers in English", Tutuola "re-envisioned classic themes of African, particularly West African, storytelling. in a written [Pidgin] English that remains uniquely his" (Nyamnjoh, p. xi). Tutuola's writings "retell many of the stories he first heard as a child in Abeokuta, a Yoruba-speaking town in western Nigeria where he was born in 1920" (Niven). In this novel he "uniquely synthesizes the Yoruba culture he was born into with that of the British and Christian colonialism under which he matured into adulthood. [It] tells the story of a west African child who is forced for 24 years to navigate an incomprehensible wilderness filled with fantastical beings, most of whom are, as the title suggests, some form of ghost. It's a striking work of syncretism, recontextualizing previously unrecorded west African mythology by imbuing it with symbols of what was at the time a new global modernity. Tutuola would go on to inspire Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and superproducer Brian Eno to record a 1981 album by the same title as this book; it's a testament to his impact, as arguably the first international artist to form a new language by sampling the folk traditions of the global south and the modern imagery of the industrialized West" (Wolfson). It was first published in the UK earlier that year. Loosely inserted in this copy is the publisher's mailing list card. Bleiler, p. 499; not in Currey or Locke. Alastair Niven, "Obituary: Amos Tutuola", Independent, 15 June 1997; Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutola Can Change Our Minds, 2017; Elijah Wolfson, "The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time", Time, 2020. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in red on silver ground and in silver, bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Browning to endpapers, else a fine, fresh copy in near-fine dust jacket, unclipped, one or two nicks, a little rubbing to edges, remains sharp.
Published by London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1954, 1954
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition, first impression, of the author's scarce second book, following The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952), which T. S. Eliot at Faber recommended for publication, gaining Tutuola international recognition. "Among the earliest Nigerian fictional writers in English", Tutuola "re-envisioned classic themes of African, particularly West African, storytelling. in a written [Pidgin] English that remains uniquely his" (Nyamnjoh, p. xi). Tutuola's writings "retell many of the stories he first heard as a child in Abeokuta, a Yoruba-speaking town in western Nigeria where he was born in 1920" (Niven). In this novel he "uniquely synthesizes the Yoruba culture he was born into with that of the British and Christian colonialism under which he matured into adulthood. [It] tells the story of a west African child who is forced for 24 years to navigate an incomprehensible wilderness filled with fantastical beings, most of whom are, as the title suggests, some form of ghost. It's a striking work of syncretism, recontextualizing previously unrecorded west African mythology by imbuing it with symbols of what was at the time a new global modernity. Tutuola would go on to inspire Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and superproducer Brian Eno to record a 1981 album by the same title as this book; it's a testament to his impact, as arguably the first international artist to form a new language by sampling the folk traditions of the global south and the modern imagery of the industrialized West" (Wolfson). Bleiler, p. 499; not in Currey or Locke. Alastair Niven, "Obituary: Amos Tutuola", Independent, 15 June 1997; Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutola Can Change Our Minds, 2017; Elijah Wolfson, "The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time", Time, 2020. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in red on silver ground. With dust jacket. A little rubbing to lower edges of bright cloth, small bumps to ends and corners, foxing to edges, browning to free endpapers, contents clean. A very good copy in like dust jacket, price-clipped, spine lightly faded, couple of short closed tears and shallow chips, unobtrusive pen mark on rear flap, bright overall.