LAYE, Camara. The Dark Child… translated from the French by James Kirkup. London: Collins, 1955. First English edition, 8vo (218 x 132mm.) 2 newspaper articles about the book mounted to half-title and verso front-free endpaper. (Toning, rear endpaper with loss to upper edge.) Original red cloth. Note: the extent of Camara Laye’s authorship of the book has been contested. Provenance: C.R. and J.E. Ashbee (oval morocco bookplate to the front pastedown). – And a further twenty-one volumes all with ownership marks of the Ashbee family (including those with Ashbee bookplates: Esther S. Warner’s ‘The Silk-Cotton Tree’, 1958, 8vo, and Sewell Stokes ‘Court Circular’, 1950, 8vo, and Diana Marr-Johnson’s ‘Bella North’, 1954, 8vo, and John Brown’s ‘Rab and His Friends’, 1854, 4to, and Malcolm Elwin’s ‘The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson’, 1950, 8vo, and ‘T.E. Lawrence by His Friends’, pencil inscribed by C.R. Ashbee, 1937, 8vo, and H. Labouchère-de Vries’ ‘August Rodin’, inscribed by Prunella Ashbee to ‘Horst’ [her husband, Walter Nessler], 1939, 4to, and ‘Aunt Louisa’s ‘Zoological Gardens’, inscribed to J.E. Ashbee, [circa 1874], 4to) (22).