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The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born.

ARMAH, Ayi Kwei.

  • Published: 1968 , Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1968. First edition, first printing, of the author's debut novel. While the Ghanaian author published short stories and essays, it is his novels that have built his reputation and have "been central in the shaping of the canon of African literature" (Gikandi). Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, black roundel to front with gilt floral vignette, blue endpapers. With dust jacket. Spine ends a touch bumped, a little rubbing to spine ends and tips, slight bump to lower edge of text block. A near-fine copy, clean and firm, in the jacket, trivial rubbing to extremities and the occasional nick, else sharp and bright. Simon Gikandi, Encyclopedia of African Literature, Routledge, 2002, pp. 38-40.

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