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Second printing of the first Everyman's Library edition, housed in variant dark blue boards with title box on front cover (unlike the common red boards with front cover blank). A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out, SIGNED AND DATED BY ACHEBE on the flyleaf. A beautiful signed copy of Achebe's famous novel.

Fine in dust jacket with a ribbon marker. Later printing. Signed by Achebe on the title page.

Books are carefully sealed in waterproof mailers and then boxed to prevent damage during transit.No jacket. Former library book. Faded and rubbed. Occasional annotations throughout. Additional photos on request. (Shelf: K05)

First edition of this "true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world" (Barack Obama). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Chinua Achebe on the title page. Review copy, with the slip laid in, fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. First editions are rare and desirable signed. Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities. "Things Fall Apart may well be Africa's best loved novel. It would be impossible to say how much it influenced African writing. It would be like asking how Shakespeare influenced English writers or Pushkin influenced Russians. Achebe didn't only play the game, he invented it" (Kwame Anthony Appiah).