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Cary, Joyce. The African Witch. Victor Gollancz, 1936.
Price: US$3.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: boards are worn, chipped and knocked. foxing and marks. no inscriptions. fair copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
CARY Joyce. The African Witch. Victor Gollancz, 1936.
Price: US$4.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 448 pages, hardback, a very good copy.
Seller: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, United Kingdom
Joyce Cary. The African Witch. Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936.
Price: US$4.61 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: General wear to boards with edge wear and soiling. Hinges are a bit cracked with webbing visible. Content has light toning and writing on the ffep. No DJ.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Cary, Joyce. The African Witch. Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: the boards are edge worn and shelf rubbed. a bit torn at the edges. sunned. some foxing. a bit marked. previous ownership plate. tightly bound. [P.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Cary, Joyce. THE AFRICAN WITCH. Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: From the collection of The book Society. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, small creases and edge worn. There is minor foxing on the early pages but very little in the body of the book. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Cary, Joyce. The African Witch. Victor Gollancz, 1936.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: boards are worn and chipped. tanning. soiling and scarring. book club stamps. visible netting. poor copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Joyce Cary. The African witch. London : Victor Gollancz, 1936.
Price: US$6.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 448 pages ; 20 cm
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Chadwell Heath, United Kingdom
Cary, Joyce. The African Witch. Victor Gollancz, United Kingdom, 1936.
Price: US$6.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, first impression 1936 good hardback, foxing and browning to scattered foxing throughout text, spotting to covers, board corners and edges rubbed. No dust wrapper. No inscription. 448 pages.
Seller: M. C. Wilson, Perth, WA, Australia
Joyce Cary. The African Witch. Victor Gollancz, London, 1936.
Price: US$10.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition of Cary's novel, drawing on his experiences in Africa. No DJ. Foxing to page edges. Spine slightly cocked. Contents clean and binding sound. Good.
Seller: AJ Scruffles, Leigh On Sea, ESSEX, United Kingdom
Cary, Joyce. The African Witch. Gollancz, London, 1936.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cary, Joyce. The African Witch. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936. First edition. Octavo, 448 pp. Original black cloth, spine stamped in gold. A bit of wear at top of spine, else very good. #1070. $12. Bleiler (1978), p. 40. The novel centers on an Oxford-educated Nigerian, returned home, and his sister, who presides over witchcraft trials of innocent people while she secretly practices genuine witchcraft herself.
Seller: Robert Eldridge, Bookseller, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Cary, Joyce. The African Witch - FIRST PRINTING. Victor Gollancz, London, 1936.
Price: US$12.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good first printing without dustjacket. Bookplate to front paste down. Foxing to page edges and spine lettering faded. As an enthusiastic collector myself I make every effort to provide a high level of service. Enquiries welcomed. Paypal accepted.
Seller: Signature Firsts, Brecon, POWYS, United Kingdom
Cary, Joyce.. THE AFRICAN WITCH.. Victor Gollancz, 1936.
Price: US$18.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1936. Victor Gollancz. Hard Cover. Book- VG, gilt titles on spine, black boards. 8x5. 448pp. Private library plate.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Cary, Joyce. The African Witch.. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1936.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Cary's first popular novel. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Based on the author's own experiences with a Nigerian regiment fighting in the German colony of Kamerun, The Africa Witch was Cary's first popular novel, far more ambitious than his previous three and rich in incident, character, and theme.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
CARY, Joyce. The African Witch. Victor Gollancz, London, 1936.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 448 p. 21 cm. Black cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket has darkened spine, a little wear to edges. Foxing to text block edges. Inside, the foxing is mainly to the first and last pages.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
JOYCE CARY. THE AFRICAN WITCH. VICTOR GOLLANCZ, 1936.
Price: US$22.87 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO60061535: 1936. In-12. Relié toilé. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 448 pages. Ex libris "The book society" illustrée en noir et blanc. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
Joyce Cary. The African Witch. Victor Gollancz, London, 1936.
Price: US$32.01 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hard cover without dj. 448pp. Some foxing to prelims, endpapers, and page edges. Book otherwise good with gilt a little faded on title. Book Society Bookplate, may 1936.
Seller: WEST WESSEX BOOKS, Taunton, United Kingdom
Joyce Cary. The African Witch. Victor Gollancz, London, 1936.
Price: US$37.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 448pp. VG/VG. 1st edition. Black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Creasing to cloth at top and tail of spine. Touch of shelf wear to lower board edges and corners. Unused book plate tipped to front end paper. Age toning to fore edge and dusty top page edges. Faint marks to margin of title pages. Clean inside pages. Tightly bound. Original unclipped yellow dust jacket with black lettering on face. Black lettering also on slightly sun darkened spine. Shelf wear to top and tail of spine and also to corners of dj. All now protected in archival wraps.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
CARY, Joyce.. The African Witch.. London Victor Gollancz 1936, 1936.
Price: US$44.81 + shipping
Description: 8vo hardback with dust jacket, 448pp. Light foxing to edges, bookplate to front pastedown, dust jacket darkened and edgeworn, with a few chips and slight loss to spine ends, overall Good/Sound. (SHELF 200) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct
Seller: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, United Kingdom
CARY, Joyce (1888-1957). The African Witch. London: Victor Gollancz, 1936, 1936.
Price: US$44.81 + shipping
Description: [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.448. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. A lovely clean copy internally. Moderate wear to covers; gilt dulled and slightly chipped. Very good. The Irish author's third novel, set in Nigeria, and his first real success, 'so rich in incident and character.'. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature [448].
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Cary, Joyce. The African Witch. Victor Gollancz, London, 1936.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8mo., 448pp. Sharp First Edition, bound in black titles in gilt on spine. Square, solid and clean throughout with very mildly toning page edges. Fairly mild edge-wear and surface rubbing. Attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (8/6 net on spine panel), has a toned spine, a couple of tiny nicks and closed to ears. A solid collectable copy at a great price.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
CARY, Joyce.. The African Witch.. Victor Gollancz, London., 1936.
Price: US$96.02 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 448 pages. His third novel.Very good in very good dustwrapper a bit faded at the spine and edges and with several short tear repaired on the reverse.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Cary, Joyce. THE AFRICAN WITCH. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1936.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of his third book, a novel set in West Africa. Small tasteful bookplate on front pastedown under flap, of "Claude" (Smith) a cartoonist for The New Yorker, Playboy, et al. Top front cover a little bumped, otherwise the black cloth and spine gilt lettering is near fine, in a very good or better typical yellow, lightly soiled, Gollancz dust jacket with one small closed tear.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Joyce Cary. The African Witch. London, Victor Gollancz, 1936.
Price: US$134.43 + shipping
Description: The first edition of Joyce Cary's third novel, set in Nigeria in the interwar period. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Set in Nigeria against the background of a struggle for supremacy between different factions, Anglo-Irish novelist and colonial administrator Joyce Cary presents a study of the clash of tradition and modernity in a rural village, when a ten-year-old is accused of witchcraft.An early work from Cary, whose most notable novels include Mister Johnson and The Horse's Mouth. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to spine head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Dust wrapper back strip age toned, with chipping to back strip head and tail. Small hole to back strip tail. Light marks to wrap perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Cary, Joyce. THE AFRICAN WITCH. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1936.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of his third book, a novel set in West Africa. Book Society bookplate of Arthur Thomas Dutton on front pastedown. Rub to fore edge of front board otherwise would be near fine; in very good or better typical yellow Gollancz dust jacket with spine and edges toned, tear to top edge front panel affecting "TH" in "THE" and another on rear panel. Both tears show internal evidence of having been backed with tape at some point, though the tape itself is long gone.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
CARY Joyce. The African Witch. , 1936.
Price: US$172.84 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., original black cloth, dust jacket. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. Cary was in the Nigerian Political Service between 1913 and 1921, and in the Great War went through the Cameroons Campaign of 1915-1916 with the Nigerian Regiment. Faintly spotted on fore-edge, otherwise a near fine copy in dust jacket, lightly faded on the spine.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Cary (Joyce). The African Witch.. Victor Gollancz, 1936.
Price: US$256.06 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, a sprinkling of tiny faint spots to half-title, pp. 448, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow with a tiny amount of wear at ends, slight rubbing to extremities, Sotheran sticker at foot of front pastedown, dustjacket bright, minor chipping at head of slightly sunned backstrip panel, very good. Signed by the author on the title-page; a novel based on his time in Nigeria, where he served in the political service prior to and during the First World War.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
CARY, Joyce.. The African Witch.. London Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936.
Price: US$393.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; 8vo; contents a little browned as usual; publisher's black cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the dust jacket, front hinge starting, a lovely copy in the spine sunned dust jacket with some small loss at the top of the spine panel. The author's landmark pre-war novel, not so common in the jacket.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom