Blade Among the Boys
London: Hutchinson, 1962. Hardcover. 192p., very good first edition in boards and unclipped; slightly soil-rubbed dust jacket, board corners lightly bumped, rubberstamp on front free endpapers, else very good.
Second novel by the Nigerian writer and editor of Nigeria Magazine concerns a young African faced with the crisis of accepting a new religion, Christianity, which denies him everything that his people believe makes a man.
Cat.No: 193211
Price: $20.00
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