BETI, Mongo.

King Lazarus.

Stock Code 110607

London, Frederick Muller Limited, 1969

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Mongo Beti has an almost unique gift for getting humour out of vitally serious subjects. Here he satirises in turn the Catholic Church, obsolete tribal customs and French Colonialism, a breadth of outlook producing superb comedy presented with gay but lethal pungency' (blurb).

First edition in English, second impression; 8vo (20.5 x 14 cm); publisher's dark brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, minor wear to jacket ends, internally very clean; 191, [1]pp.

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