NO LONGER AT EASE

London: Heinemann, 1960. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. Scarce first edition of Achebe's second novel, set in contemporary Nigeria and following the grandson of Okonkwo, hero of THINGS FALL APART. NO LONGER AT EASE derives its title from Eliot's "Journey of the Magi" ("But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation"), as the preceding THINGS FALL APART alludes to Yeats; in it, Achebe arranges for his protagonist a quiet, understated catastrophe of colonial pressures and corruption. Following the novel's publication and positive reception, Achebe was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship, the first of many major awards and honors to follow. 7.25'' x 5''. Original oxblood cloth. In original unclipped (13s 6d) pictorial dust jacket by Peter Edwards. 170 pages. Ink owner name to front free endpaper. Light foxing to endpapers and edges of text block, spine lean. Minor soil and chipping to jacket at extremities, with touch of fading to spine.