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WRITING IN A STATE OF SIEGE: Essays on Politics and Literature.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Summit Books, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - First book of nonfiction by this internationally acclaimed South African writer. Topics range from apartheid to Mahatma Gandhi, censorship, the position of the Afrikaans writer and more. ISBN: 0-671-47751x.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 16502More details Price: $25.00 -
LAMPS IN THE WIND: South Indian College Women and Their Problems.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very good in illustrated cloth (previous owner's name, offsetting to the front endpaper), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 69139More details Price: $20.00 -
RUSSIA: ITS PEOPLE AND ITS LITERATURE.
Edition: First American edition.
Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1890. Hardcover first edition - Bazan was both a noted novelist and writer, she was one of the first women to hold a chair - as professor of literature - at the University of Madrid. Includes sections on Russian history, serfdom, the origins of nihilism, the role of women, censorship, and on the writers Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy and more. Translated from the Spanish by Fanny Hale Gardiner. Translator's preface. x, 293 pp. plus 8 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Rather uncommon in this condition.
Book ID: 64535More details Price: $75.00 -
JOSEPH ANTON: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of his nine years of living underground after a fatwa was issued against him as the author of "The Satanic Verses." 636 pp. ISBN: 978-0812992786.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, but with a small remainder dot)
Book ID: 66374More details Price: $17.50 -
JOSEPH ANTON: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of his nine years of living underground after a fatwa was issued against him as the author of "The Satanic Verses." SIGNED on the title page. 636 pp. ISBN: 978-0812992786.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 68340More details Price: $28.50 -
HOUSE ARREST.
Edition: 3rd US printing.
Boston: Gambit, 1970. dj. Hardcover - First person account of this Greek newspaper owner who refused to publish under censorship in the 1960's when the Greek government was overthrown by the junta of colonels, and of her eventual escape to England. In addition, Vlachos tells of her life during the occupation of Greece during World War II and of the civil war that followed. Photographs, Index, 183 pp.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket (some rubbing to the dj).
Book ID: 45149More details Price: $13.50