A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> first printing of Things Fall Apart by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Chinua+Achebe&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chinua Achebe</a>.<ul><li>Chinua Achebe (Nigerian).</li><li>London / Melbourne / Toronta:&nbsp;Heinemann,&nbsp;(1958).</li><li>[viii], 188 pages.&nbsp;</li><li>One of 2000 copies.</li><li>Original full orange cloth, in original price-clipped color pictorial jacket designed by C.W. Bacon.</li></ul> "Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten." First in the Nigerian author's African trilogy, which also includes No Longer At Ease (1960) and Arrow Of God (1964), Things Fall Apart was selected by Time magazine on one of its "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005," and by the BBC for its "100 Novels That Shaped Our World." An enduring and landmark book, central to the development of the 20th-centuy novel in English.

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