THE AFRICAN BOY by Sargent, E.N - (1963)

Macmillan, 1963. EX-LIBRARY copy with card pocket and discard stamps. Price clipped from flap. Otherwise book and jacket in very good condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Ex-Library/Very Good/Ex-Library.

New York: Collier Books, 1967 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Collier Books Edition. Light normal wear; a nice copy. 77 pages..

NY: Macmillan Co, 1963. Green boards, white lettering, clean, bright. Pages [77] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. NON price-clipped DJ [$ 3.95] mostly clean, colors bright, a little edge wear, rubbed, tape remnants at flaps. The African Boy of these poems comes from Ile-Ife, mythical West African "Land of Love, Land of Song." An explicit, primal eroticism breathes from every page. The author has intimate knowledge of tribal and religious rituals and has put it to use to write this book based on the experiences, physical and emotional, of an African girl who has submitted to the dreadful ceremony of female circumcision. Its significance and its effect are wonderfully evoked, without being repulsive. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Near… Read More

NY: Macmillan,, 1963.. First edition.. Near fine in very good dust price-clipped dust jacket. Three song cycles on West African themes, including the opening long poem which might possibly be, if not the only, perhaps the only, in English on the practice of female circumcision and its psychological effects. Blurbs by Malcolm Cowley, Harold Rosenberg and Howard Moss.

Macmillan: Macmillan. 1963. First Edition. hardcover. B037237; 77 g, g dj(some edgewear), clean ex-lib, fep missing .

Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Macmillan, c 1963, hardback, stated: First printing, Fine but for previous owner's name on front fly/Very Good dust jacket (price-clipped, some edgewear) , 77 pages, text unmarked. POETRY; F4709 S Poe .

New York: Macmillan Company, 1963. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in attractive price-clipped near fine dustwrapper with a short tear on the rear panel.

New York Collier Books 1967., 1967. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. BOOK VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. 75pp. A VERY CLEAN, NICE COPY. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS.

New York: The MacMillan Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1963. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket. First printing. Green boards, clean and sharp. Protected, clipped dustjacket is bright, with mild age toning and shelf wear to edges. Book is firm in binding, crisp interior, light foxing to top page-edge. 77 pp. Including bibliography. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Macmillan, 1963. 1st Ptg. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. (1st ptg.) Thinner book, quality blue cloth. white and black lettering very fine on spine, black inside covers and adjacent end papers, 77 pages. DJ price-clipped, dark blue front and spine, white back very lightly browned with praise from Howard Moss. DJ has very slight wear at upper front tip, nick at bottom front edge and spine bottom edge, Near Fine DJ/Very Fine book.