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Author: Ngugi, James (Ngugi wa Thiong'o)
Title: A Grain of Wheat
Publisher: Heinemann
Date: 1967
Place: London
Dimensions: 8vo. 19.5cm x 12.5cm
vi+280pp
1st edition
1st edition of the author's third novel, written and published before renouncing the name James Ngugi for Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Set in the years of Emergency in post independence Kenya, later published in paperback for the influential Heinemann African Writers Series.
Blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, binding tight and square. In VG - dust jacket, with soiling to panels, rubbing to spine titles, chips and a few, short tears to the edges.
Very Good, some foxing to the preliminary leaves, fore and tail edge. Overall pleasing and Very Good.