First American edition, first printing. Signed by Chinua Achebe on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original magenta cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with light dust-soiling and light fading to cloth at edges, pages lightly tanned and faintly foxed at textblock edge. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with fraying to the spine ends, rubbing to the rear panel, foxing and toning to the blindside. The Nigerian author's third novel, the last of The African Trilogy.