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Tutuola (Amos) The Palm Wine Drinkard, first edition, 1952.

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Tutuola (Amos) The Palm Wine Drinkard, first edition, 1952.

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Tutuola (Amos) The Palm Wine Drinkard, first edition, browning to endpapers, original cloth, bumping to foot of lower cover, dust-jacket, designed by Barnett Freedman, light browning to spine, light creasing to tips of spine and corners, a near-fine example generally, 8vo, 1952.

⁂ Tutuola's first book and the first African novel published in English outside of Africa. The Palm Wine Drinkard was reviewed enthusiastically by Dylan Thomas and was translated into French by Raymond Queneau.