The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Macgibbon & Kee / London 1965. First Printing of the seminal work on the decolonization of the mind. Jacket has only light edge wear. Name of previous owner on first page. No underlining or marks in text.

There is a sticker inside the book indicating it was initially sold at the Michael Forde Bookshop in Georgetown, Guyana

"The bookshop is named for a 22-year-old Progressive Youth Organisation (PYO) activist, who was one of the leaders of the historic Freedom Marches in February of 1964. Forde was killed by an explosive package brought to Freedom House by a book purchaser. It was reported to the police that a young man went into the Progressive Bookshop, housed in the Freedom House building with a small carton. He placed the box on a bookshelf, purchased a book, and, without waiting for his change, hurriedly left the shop, leaving his box behind. Seconds after the man had left, Forde, who was an employee, called out to the manager, Miss Euna Mulzack, an American citizen residing in the country, and informed her that the young man left hurriedly without collecting his change and also left a box behind. Becoming suspicious, she told him to throw the box out of the building. Forde responded, and was rushing through the eastern side door of the shop when there was an explosion. The lower part of Forde’s left hand was hurled some 50 yards away, behind the pit entrance of the Metropole Cinema. His mutilated body was found face upward, lying across the entrance of Freedom House, with just strips of clothing dangling around his waist. At the time of the explosion there were around 40 persons in Freedom House, some of whom were injured. "