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THE ESSENTIAL GESTURE:Writing, Politics, and Places.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of 23 essays, covering 40 years by this South African writer. Edited and with an introduction by Stephen Clingman. 3560pp. with index and notes. ISBN: 0-394-573978.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39864More details Price: $18.00 -
A SPORT OF NATURE
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful novel, written before Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991. The story of a young white woman who rejects the "privileges" she is born into in South Africa, and, among other things, marries a black activist. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-394548027.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (line on bottom edge, discoloration from old glue under dj flaps.)
Book ID: 71385More details Price: $16.50 -
A WORLD OF STRANGERS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1958. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel, fourth book, by this Nobel prize winning writer, set in her native South Africa. Shows the divided world of apartheit through the eyes of a young Englishman. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 312 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some shelfwear to the lower edges of the boards, toning and some discoloration to the dust jacket.
Book ID: 37707More details Price: $175.00 -
JUMP AND OTHER STORIES.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. dj. Hardcover - The eighth collection of short fiction by this Nobel Prize winning writer. ISBN: 0-374-180555.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 18260More details Price: $12.50 -
THE CONSERVATIONIST.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (1975.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the Booker Prize; described as Gordimer's finest novel, set in South Africa. "A wealthy industrialist, attractive to women, not yet fifty, Mehring wants for nothing that white privilege in a black country can bring him." 252 pp,. ISBN: 0-670-23883X.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (prev owner's name, sunning to dj, light rubbing, price-clipped)
Book ID: 57459More details Price: $24.50 -
NONE TO ACCOMPANY ME.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1994). First edition - Novel by this Nobel Laureate set in South Africa as apartheid is coming to an end. 324 pp. A rather uncommon advance issue.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60458More details Price: $25.00 -
SOMETHING OUT THERE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long novella and a collection of short stories by this South African Nobel Prize lauriate. ISBN: 0-670-656607.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 12859More details Price: $22.50 -
A SOLDIER'S EMBRACE: Stories,
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve short stories, most set in her native South Africa, by this Nobel Prize winning author. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-670656380.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (hint of sunning to the spine of the dj)
Book ID: 79966More details Price: $17.50 -
A SPORT OF NATURE
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful novel, written before Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991. The story of a young white woman who rejects the "privileges" she is born into in South Africa, and, among other things, marries a black activist. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-394548027.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.(light toning to the edges of the text block)
Book ID: 60457More details Price: $19.50 -
A SOLDIER'S EMBRACE: Stories,
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve short stories, most set in her native South Africa, by this Nobel Prize winning author. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-670656380.
Condition: Good in a dust jacket (some shelfwear to boards, corners slightly bumped, price-clipped).
Book ID: 78698More details Price: $13.50 -
LIVINGSTONE'S COMPANIONS: Stories,
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of sixteen short stories, all but three set in Africa, by this Nobel Prize winning author. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-670435708.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (discoloration from glue on rear endpaper, otherwise very tight and clean)
Book ID: 83285More details Price: $17.50 -
THE HOUSE GUN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - "A house gun is like a house cat: a fact of ordinary life today." Compelling novel set in South Africa of a couple whose son is arrested for murder. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-374-173079.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 24626More details Price: $17.50 -
THE ESSENTIAL GESTURE:Writing, Politics, and Places.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of 23 essays, covering 40 years by this South African writer. Edited and with an introduction by Stephen Clingman. 3560pp. with index and notes. ISBN: 0-394-573978.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (rem line, 1 closed tear.)
Book ID: 26570More details Price: $15.00 -
MY SON'S STORY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of conflict between a father and his son, set against a modern South Africa where racial laws had been abolished, but racial tensions still remain. Nobel prize winning author. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-374-217513.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20520More details Price: $18.50 -
LIFE TIMES: Stories, 1952 - 2007.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A significant collection of the short fiction of this South African Nobel Prize winning author, containing 35 stories from 10 collections, spanning her career from 1952 to 2007, and including two new post 2007 stories. 549 pp. ISBN: 9780374270537.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56067More details Price: $20.00 -
JUMP AND OTHER STORIES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth collection of short fiction by this Nobel Prize winning writer. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-374-180555.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 35555More details Price: $20.00 -
A WOMAN'S PART IN A REVOLUTION.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good overall in deep red cloth covers with gilt lettering - covers are in near fine condition, pages have the usual rather severe toning, with some pages still unopened and others with marginal tears from careless opening.
Book ID: 40038More details Price: $85.00 -
BLOODSONG And Other Stories of South Africa.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of short stories which make the voices of the African laborers and the Afrikaaners come alive. From the dustjacket: "Violence comes in many forms, not all of them bloody. These extraordinarily moving stories from South Africa report not on the violence of the evening news but on the quiet anguish and brutality suffered by all the nation's inhabitants, both black and white.". 134 pp. ISBN: 0-395432960.
Condition: Fine in a poor dust jacket (large piece has been torn from back cover - it is still present, but detached.)
Book ID: 61579More details Price: $15.00 -
BLOOD SONG And Other Stories of South Africa.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of short stories which make the voices of the African laborers and the Afrikaaners come alive. From the dustjacket: "Violence comes in many forms, not all of them bloody. These extraordinarily moving stories from South Africa report not on the violence of the evening news but on the quiet anguish and brutality suffered by all the nation's inhabitants, both black and white.". 134 pp. ISBN: 0-395432960.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (initials at bottom edge of textblock, some spotting to the spine of the dj, tear at upper edge.)
Book ID: 32744More details Price: $15.00 -
BLOODSONG And Other Stories of South Africa.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of short stories which make the voices of the African laborers and the Afrikaaners come alive. From the dustjacket: "Violence comes in many forms, not all of them bloody. These extraordinarily moving stories from South Africa report not on the violence of the evening news but on the quiet anguish and brutality suffered by all the nation's inhabitants, both black and white.". 134 pp. ISBN: 0-395432960.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 32865More details Price: $20.00 -
THE NEW FACE OF AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: Longman's, Green & Co., 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the African revolutions by a journalist who had been living in and reporting from Africa since 1946. Describes events in the Congo, South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopa and more - and includes information on the African leaders - Kasavubu, Toure, Tshombe, Lumumba, Kenyatta and Nkrumah. Map endpapers. Index. 296 pages.
Condition: Near fine in a somewhat edgeworn, but overall good, dustjacket.
Book ID: 16151More details Price: $25.00 -
AFRICAN PULSE: Scenes from an African Hospital Window.
Edition: First printing.
London & New York: The Faith Press / Morehouse-Barlow Co., (1960). Hardcover first edition - Anecdotes from years at a hospital in South Africa, including a discussion of the differences between traditional medicine and Western medicine. Illustrated with black and white photographs on glossy paper. Preface, prologue. 127 pp.
Condition: Good overall in green cloth (sunning to the spine, corners slightly bumped, address stamped on front end paper), lacking the dj.
Book ID: 54586More details Price: $12.50 -
BABOON ROCK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1959. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of adventure set in 1872 in the diamond mines and the remote back country of South Africa. Dust jacket art by H. Lawrence Hoffman. 384 pp.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (corner of dj clipped, but price of 3.95 present, fading to spine of dj.)
Book ID: 38190More details Price: $25.00 -
CALL ME WOMAN.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Uncommon in this, the true first edition, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 35251More details Price: $175.00 -
CALL ME WOMAN.
Edition: First UK printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. The very uncommon hardcover first edition.
Book ID: 35252More details Price: $100.00 -
CALL ME WOMAN.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers
Book ID: 62380More details Price: $18.50 -
THE DEVIL'S CHIMNEY
Edition: First printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a novel set in South Africa in the 50's - Coetzee stated that in this book "South Africa is for the first time seen through the lens of magic realism and the effect is exhilarating." Glossary, 292 pp. ISBN: 1569471010.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 55964More details Price: $20.00 -
THE DEVIL'S CHIMNEY
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. First edition - Author's first book, a novel set in South Africa in the 50's - Coetzee stated that in this book "South Africa is for the first time seen through the lens of magic realism and the effect is exhilarating."
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers, as issued.
Book ID: 6651More details Price: $20.00 -
THE GRANDMOTHERS: Four Short Novels.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of four short novels by this Nobel award winning author, set in her native South Africa, each of which explores different aspects of the human condition. In addition to the title story, this includes "Victoria and the Staveneys", "The Reason for It" and "A Love Child." 311 pp. ISBN: 0-060530103.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 82383More details Price: $16.50 -
THE RELUCTANT AFRICAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1960.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the front cover of dustjackt: 'One of the decade's most impressive and shocking close-ups of crisis: an American Negro journalist's firsthand report on the storm of racism and revolution raging through Africa from Cairo to Capetown.' Map insert and map endpapers. 117 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in very good- dust jacket (some creasing and edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 38432More details Price: $20.00