HEAD ABOVE WATER

First hardback edition, first printing. Publisher's original black faux leather with gilt titles to the spine, in the Kathy Bor illustrated dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square, firm, bright and fresh. The contents, with the pencilled ownership name and date of James Booth (former Professor of English at the University of Hull and biographer, editor and former colleague of Philip Larkin; he has also written about Nigerian literature and culture) and his notes and underlinings in pencil throughout are otherwise bright and clean. Complete with the very lightly rubbed and price-clipped dustwrapper that is otherwise without fading, loss or tears. A nice copy with an interesting academic provenance.

Buchi Emecheta's autobiography, from her early years in Nigeria through to her life as a celebrated writer in Britain.