first edition Hardcover
1960 · New York
by LAURENCE, Margaret
New York: St. Martins, 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Trifle sunned at the foot of the spine else about fine in very good plus dustwrapper with several small nicks and tears, particularly at the spinal extremities. Acclaimed Canadian author's first solely authored book (preceded by an anthology that she edited in Nairobi, where she lived in the 1950s). A novel of the exchange of power between old colonials and native Africans in the emerging nation of Ghana. Her later fiction centered on women struggling for self-realization in western Canada. Scarce. (Inventory #: 17163)
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