The 52nd California book fair STAND 815 Item 127 BLACKWELL’S RARE BOOKS 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BQ, UK Tel.: +44 (0)1865 333555 Fax: +44 (0)1865 794143 Email:
[email protected] Twitter: @blackwellrare blackwell.co.uk/rarebooks BLACKWELL’S RARE BOOKS 1. Achebe (Chinua) Things Fall Apart. Heinemann, 1958, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY FOR FIRST EDITION, a couple of handling marks and a few faint spots occasionally, a couple of passages marked lightly in pencil to the margin, pp. [viii], 185, crown 8vo, original tan wrappers printed to front and backstrip, the front with publication date and price written in blue ink, the stamp of ‘Juta & Co Ltd’ in Cape Town and ‘21 Apr 1958’ (date of sending?) stamped at foot, a few spots to edges, pencilled ownership inscription to half- title (flyleaf not called for), proof dustjacket chipped at head of backstrip panel with spotting to rear panel and rubbing to extremities, Juta & Co stamp at foot of front flap, good $3,900 An important work of post-colonial fiction, set in Nigeria at the end of the nineteenth-century - a scarce proof, the dustjacket of which does not carry the price but otherwise matches the design of the published version. A copy with African provenance, the publisher having offices in Cape Town. 2. (Alembic Press.) RICHARDSON (Maureen) Plant Papers’ Paper Plants. Kennington, Oxford, Alembic Press, 1989, FIRST EDITION, 25/25 COPIES (from an edition of 145 copies) printed on a special making of Japanese handmade Kozo paper, 4 linocuts by John Gibbs printed in brown, 14 tipped-in samples of plant paper (enumerated below) made by Maureen Richardson, this special edition with five additional paper samples (one printed with a John Gibbs linocut), pp.