Joyce Cary — The African Witch

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Joyce Cary"s third novel, set in Nigeria in the interwar period, and in the original dust wrapper. 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 with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely with only slight tape marks to the endpapers. The wrap is generally smart with sunning to the spine, closed tears and chips to the extremities and minimal handling marks. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.