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First edition of The Games Were Coming by Michael Anthony, inscribed by the author to John La Rose.
First edition of The Games Were Coming by Michael Anthony, inscribed by the author to John La Rose.
First edition of The Games Were Coming by Michael Anthony, inscribed by the author to John La Rose.

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ANTHONY, Michael.

The Games Were Coming.

London, Andre Deutsch, 1963.

£500.00
£500.00

The Games Were Coming.

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Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in blue ink to the front free endpaper: 'To John La Rose / with gratitude and admiration / Michael Anthony.'

The recipient John La Rose was a political and cultural activist, poet, writer, publisher, founder of New Beacon Books in 1966, the first specialist Caribbean publishing company in Britain, and subsequently Chairman of the George Padmore Institute.

First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author; 8vo; a touch of offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's dark green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, light toning and soiling, minor edge-wear, small piece of tape to rear panel, else very good.

Stock code 109927

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First edition of The Games Were Coming by Michael Anthony, inscribed by the author to John La Rose.

The Games Were Coming.

£500.00
£500.00

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