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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, bookplate to front pastedown, original cloth, light sunning to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, spine a little dulled, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing to head, a very good copy, 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.