A TRACK TO THE WATERS EDGE: The Olive Schreiner Reader.
Edition: First printing.
New York Harper & Row, (1973.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects writings by Olive Shreiner, a woman ahead of her time - born to missionary parents in South Africa in 1855, she became an advocate for women's rights, pacificism, and humanitarianism, despised slavery and abhored violence. She achieved literary fame with the 1883 publication of 'The Story Of An African Farm.' Edited and with a long and reflective introduction by Howard Thurman, Black American author, activist and theologian. INSCRIBED by Thurman on the title page and signed as "Howard." Scarce thus. xxxix, 198 pp. ISBN: 06-0680768.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket. (sunning to spine of dj, minor wear at top of dj spine)