King Lazarus: a novel
by Beti, Mongo
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(London, Frederick Muller, 1960). Pictorial dustwrapper, very lightly rubbed, pp. 191. Owner's inscription on the front free endpaper. '... centred round the changing customs and mores of a Bantu tribe under French administration. The year is 1948: and the hereditary Chief of the Essazam clan is, to all appearances, dying. As his life has been one long round of eating, drinking, and nocturnal exercises among his twenty-three wives, this is not, perhaps, altogether surprising. But his illness worries the Administration; he is a staunch prop of the European Establishment. An even more dangerous situation is produced when the Chief, against all expectation, very suddenly recovers-and the local Roman Catholic missionary, Le Guen, persuades him to renounce his tribal ways and adopt Christianity.' .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2493
- Title
- King Lazarus: a novel
- Author
- Beti, Mongo
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- (London, Frederick Muller, 1960)
- Keywords
- South African literature South African Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- South African Literature;
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Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...