Signed Copy of a Nobel Prize–Winner's Memoirs
Ake, The Years Of Childhood
Publication: New York: Random House, 1982. First Edition.
Notes: A memoir of the Nobel Prize–winning writer's childhood years (roughly 1934 to 1944) in a small town in Nigeria.
230 pages.
Edition + Condition: First American edition (first printing, with no later printings noted). A near fine copy in a dust jacket with a bit of fading to the author's name on the spine, a one-inch closed tear at the spine-edge of the front panel that has been repaired on the back (verso) with transparent tape; a second piece of tape is affixed to the base of the spine. Signed by Soyinka on the dedication page.
Item No: #319339
Price: $250
See all items by Wole Soyinka