Children of Wax. African Folk Tales

by Alexander McCall Smith, born 1948

£275 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Edinburgh: Canongate, 1989. African folk tales INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo 23 x 15cm , pp. 8 119 1 . INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to the leaf facing the title-page. Publisher's light blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Janet Pontin. Burgundy endpapers. Internally bright and clean. Jacket price clipped. Near fine. A collection of short Ndebele folk stories which the author compiled on two trips to the

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