Batouala

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Hardcover. Minor defects to the leather. About Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Miguel Covarrubias. Small folio (8-1/2" x 13") bound in full blind-stamped brown leather. Copy #743 of 1500 with beautiful line drawings and color illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. The first… Read more about this item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Hardcover. Slight rubbing to the spine and corners with a small strip of leather peeled off on the rear cover. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase specially made for this copy by the publisher. Miguel Covarrubias. Small folio (8-1/2" x 13") bound in full blind-stamped brown leather. Illustrated with beautiful line drawings… Read more about this item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Covarrubias, Miguel. #1129 of 1500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator, Miguel Covarrubias. Full brown leather with horizontal ribbing design and gilt titling to spine. Translated from the French and introduced by Alvah C. Bessie, with a preface by the author. A tirade against French and Dutch… Read more about this item

NY: Thomas Seltzer. Good with no dust jacket; Boards dampstained, front hinge cracked, foxing . to endpapers.. 1922. Second Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Winner of the Prix Goncourt medal. A novel by the Afro-Caribbean author set in the former colony of French Equatorial Africa. #61 in Charles L.… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second printing. Front and rear hinges repaired, shallow tears to the spine ends thus very good lacking the dustwrapper. *Blockson 101* #61.

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Wear to the spine ends, spine darkened thus very good copy of this important Caribbean novel, lacking the dustwrapper. *Blockson 101* #61.

Limited Editions Club, New York. 1932. Translated by Alvah C. Bessie. Number 1187 of 1500 copies, signed by the artist.. Hardback.. Black and White illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. Leather-bound. Very Good- (covers lightly worn, especially to edges; interior clean and tight). No slipcase.

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1930. Trade Paperback. 207p., very good in lightly worn pictorial wraps, mildly toned. Novel of French Equatorial Africa by the Martinique-born author.

New York: Seltzer, 1922. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. Light wear to the spine ends and a neat, contemporary gift inscription else a near fine copy of this important Caribbean novel, lacking the dustwrapper. *Blockson 101* #61.

New York: Thomas Seltzer. Very Good-. 1922. Hardcover. The first edition of this translation from the French. 207 pages, green boards with gilt printing. The spine lettering is faded, spine ends and cover corners rubbed. Former owner bookplate on the front pastedown. The contents show some very light foxing- but bright and complete. Good+. .

Washington, D.C.: Black Orpheus, 1972. Hardcover, [octavo], brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, cartographic end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 149 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, edges and flap seams creased and rubbed. Jacket design by Diana Munson.

Washington, D.C.:: Black Orpheus Press,, 1972.. Hardcover -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Book of the Month Club edition. One of the greatest works to come out of colonial Africa, this is also one of the first novels to depict Africans as they really were, and to reveal the smoldering hatred of the African and the… Read more about this item

New York:: Thomas Seltzer, , 1922.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover (some rubbing to lettering on spine, bit of wear to spine ends, and small stamp on title page, but overall a tight and clean copy.) No dust jacket. . First US printing.… Read more about this item

Albin Michel. Trade Paperback. Used - Good. The Rubaiyat LLC is a small, used bookstore in Caldwell, Idaho. All books are fair to good or better, no library copies unless specifically listed.

Heinemann, 1988-01-06. paperback. Used: Good.

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Albin Michel, 1985. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

BATOUALA, Thomas Seltzer, 1922, first American edition, just about fine in a vg dust-wrapper missing a chip from the rear dust-wrapper panel. Most uncommon in dust-wrapper. A near classic of its kind, a tale of central Africa and the winner of the Prix Goncourt award.

New York: The Limited Editions Club. Small folio (8-1/2" x 13") bound in full blind-stamped brown leather, warn spine in slip case. Copy number 721 of 1500 with beautiful line drawings and color illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias who has SIGNED on the colophon page. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1932.

Washington DC: Black Orpheus, 1972. First Edition, thus. 8vo, pp. 149. Translated by Barbara Beck and Alexandre Mboukou. Introduction by Donald E. Herdeck. Map on endpapers. Top edge slightly soiled, o/w a nice copy in somewhat scuffed and stained dj. A novel of pre-independence Equatorial Africa.