Modern African Stories

First edition. 8vo. Pp. 227, [1 (blank)]. Brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine.

Dust-wrapper price clipped, slightly water-stained to front and foot of darkened spine. Miniscule nicks/tears to spine crown. Top page edges dusty, else gilt bright and binding sound. Contents clean and crisp.

Edited by Ghanaian writer and poet Ellis Ayitey Komey and South African writer, poet, and critic Es'kia [Ezekiel] Mphahlele. Listed as an 'Outstanding 1964 Book' by Books Abroad (Summer, 1965). Twenty-five short stories by African authors including luminaries such as Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o [James Ngugi], and Amos Tutuola.