Easmon R S (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the first softcover edition. Previous owner's miniscule address label atop the front endsheet, else the text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance, with no creasing to the spine. A sharp copy.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Number 14. Cover by Heathcote Williams. Perfectbound wrappers with very light wear, near fine. This issue features William Burroughs' "The Beginning is Also the End" along with contributions from John Fowles, Gavin Ewart, Charles Edward Eaton, Paddy Kitchen, Sol Yurick, Andrew Coburn, Irvin Faust, Stuart Byron, Peter Shaffer, Barry Pree, Igmar Bergman, Ann Morrisett, Dilys Laing, John Updike, Kenneth Hanson, John Loveday, James Wright, John Malone, B.S. Johnson, R. Sarif, Easmon, Adolph Agbadja, Cyprian Ekwensi, Donald Finkel, Giles Gordon, Richard Stern, Christopher Wanklyn, Kevin Farrell, Colin Spencer, and Margaret Easroe.

First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 239pp. Hint of foxing visible to lighter portions of wrappers, else a tight, Near Fine copy. The Sierra Leonean author and doctor's first and only published novel. Easmon rose to prominence in the Seventies as an opponent of the regime of Sierra Leone President Siaka Stevens. As an author he is perhaps best-known for his early play "Dear Parent and Ogre" (1961), which was produced by Wole Soyinka and won the Encounter magazine prize for that year.