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Writing Black
Writing Black

Writing Black

by RIVE, Richard
£150.00 - £150.00
£150.00
£150.00 - £150.00
£150.00

Cape Town: David Philip. 1981.

Signed by Rive.


First edition. 210x145mm. pp. [8], [8 photographs], [2], 221 [1bl]. Signed by Richard Rive on the title page. Red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Original dustjacket with photograph of Rive on upper cover. Slight soiling and light shelfwear to dustjacket but otherwise a near fine copy of Rive's "rumbustious, always perceptive autobiography" which was developed and expanded from his ground-breaking key-note speech at the University of Indiana's African Literature Association conference in 1979. Rive was something of a prodigy and few people have done more to give a voice to African writers.


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