In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy
by Wiwa, Ken
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 0385601859
- ISBN 13
- 9780385601856
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HARDBACK "EARLY IMPRESSION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition:1st.* Impression: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: Doubleday.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated cover to match jacket, black/red title to spine and face. Minimal wear, one very small dent to lower front edge, no major faults. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.99, absolutely minimal shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, absolutely minimal paper colouration to page edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 261 pp. text.* Description: Autobiography of Ken Saro-Wiwa, one of Nigeria's best loved writers and an outspoken critic of military rule, and a prime mover in bringing the human rights abuses in Nigeria to the attention of the world. He was executed in November 1995. In this autobiography he recalls his childhood and relationship with his father.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st. Edition 2nd. Impression with NO MAJOR FAULTS.*
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- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1715
- Title
- In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy
- Author
- Wiwa, Ken
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition 2nd. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0385601859
- ISBN 13
- 9780385601856
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- UK 288
- This edition first published
- 2000
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