Weep Not, Child

by James Ngugi, Ngugi wa Thiong'o

$5,800 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

London: William Heinemann, LTD., 1964. First edition of the author’s first book and the first English novel to be published by an East African. Signed by James Ngugi as Ngugi wa Thiong'o on the title page. Bound in publisher's original brick-red cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with foxing and tanning contents. Former owner initials inked to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust

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