Description
A first edition, first printing of Nigger at Eton by Dillibe Onyeama, published by Leslie Frewin, London in 1972. A very good copy free from inscriptions, some light bumping to the spine tips and corners of the rear and top board, toning and spotting to the text block with damp-staining to the bottom edge. In a good unclipped wrapper, with chipping to the spine tips and knuckles of front and rear flap folds, chipping to the upper and lower edge of front panel with closed tear to lower edge, rubbing to the hinge of the front panel and front flap fold, bumping to the upper edge of rear flap fold, internal damp-staining to the heel of the spine.
Nigger at Eton by Dillibe Onyeama recounts his years as a Nigerian pupil at a British public school. One of Eton’s first Black students, he describes racist abuse, isolation and the pressure to adapt to an unfamiliar, privileged world. His candid memoir challenged the school’s image and led to a ban on his return. Republished in 2022 as A Black Boy at Eton, it remains a powerful account of race, class and belonging in postwar Britain.
