The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads’ Town
- 125 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- London: Faber and Faber, 1952
London: Faber and Faber, 1952. First edition. 125 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Orange cloth. Fine copy in fine bright dust jacket by Barnett Freedman (tiny traces of rubbing at head and foot of spine panel). First edition. 125 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. “When I saw that there was no palm-wine for me again, and nobody could tap it for me . . . . One fine morning I took all my native juju and also my father’s juju with me and I left my father’s home-town to find out whereabouts was my tapster who had died.”
Sharp copy of the remarkable first novel by Nigerian author Amos Tutuola (1920-1997), who drew upon Yoruba folk traditions to create an African fantastical tale narrated in a unique and inimitable language. Tutuola was also author of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.
Sharp copy of the remarkable first novel by Nigerian author Amos Tutuola (1920-1997), who drew upon Yoruba folk traditions to create an African fantastical tale narrated in a unique and inimitable language. Tutuola was also author of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.