A Grain of Wheat by James Ngugi (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o) (1st Edition)

Author: Ngugi, James (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o)
Title: A Grain of Wheat
Publisher: Heinemann
Date: 1967 
Place: London 
Dimensions: 8vo. 19.5cm x 12.5cm 

vi+280pp
1st edition

1st edition of the author’s third novel, written and published before renouncing the name James Ngugi for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Set in the years of Emergency in post independence Kenya, later published in paperback for the influential Heinemann African Writers Series.

Blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, binding tight and square. In VG minus dust jacket, with soiling to panels, rubbing to spine titles, chips and a few, short tears to the edges.

Some foxing to the preliminary leaves, fore and tail edge. Overall pleasing and Very Good.