Thorns and Thistles

by Mukhtarr Mustapha

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First edition

London: Paul Breman, 1971. First Edition. First Printing, one of 500 copies. Slim octavo 21.5cm ; photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 24pp. Fine. The Sierra Leonian author's first book. Apart from Wole Soyinka, perhaps no other West African poet can expose the nakeness of words as Mukhtarr Mustapha The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975, p.149 . Issued as No.16 in

• Binding: Wrappers

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