Description
Menkiti, Ifeanyi. Before a Common Soil. Washington, D.C.: Ilora Press, 2007. First Edition. Card Wrappers. Near Fine. 68pp. 750 copies. Inscribed by Menkiti in 2012 with, additionally, a slip of paper laid in, bearing (in his hand) contact details for both his college’s philosophy department & the Grolier Poetry Bookshop which he ran from 2006 until his death in 2019. Minutely handled.








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