Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
First American edition, first printing of Achebe's debut novel and a central text of of African post-colonial literature. In the first state binding and first state jacket with no reviews to back panel.
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1959. Publisher's original brown cloth with patterned green paper strip to front cover, spine lettered in green and red; pp. (iv), 215, [2]. A very good or better copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding remains sturdy and square, minimal wear and rubbing to boards with a few instances of faint discoloration. Foxing to text block edges, topstain lightly discolored. Offsetting and foxing to endpapers, else internally clean and fine. Jacket shows light general shelfwear with a closed tear near spine heel, reinforced on verso. A nice copy, protected in archival mylar.