BLOODSONG AND OTHER STORIES OF SOUTH AFRICA by Havermann, Ernst - 1987

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing. Only light wear; a nice copy..

Boston. 1987. June 1987. Houghton Mifflin. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0395432960. 134 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Four by Five. keywords: Literature South Africa . FROM THE PUBLISHER - An extraordinary voice tells these 11 stories, making use of familiar words in unfamiliar order and adding details so pungent that time and place are pinned in a sentence. In A Farm at Raraba a white South African soldier captures one of those yellow Hottentot types, with spaces between his peppercorns of hair, and they shelter together for the night. In the morning they go their separate ways, a pattern repeated in Death of the Nation, when the white boy from Natal takes leave of his black companion, Fakwes. The latter shares everything he knows with his white master, which bees sting and which merely buzz, how to salute the praying mantis and the white boy in turn teaches the unschooled black to read and write, presenting him with a New Testament, in Zulu. I will be a preacher, but not a… Read More

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth. Near Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 134 pages, black quarter cloth. A near fine clean, hardcover first edition, first printing, with minimal shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. In a fine dust jacket, with original price.

Bookthrift Co. Used - Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Houghton, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. 1st US Printing. Hardcover. 0395432960 .

Bookthrift Co, 1990-03. Hardcover. Good.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1987.. Hardcover first edition -. 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.). First US printing. 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.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Hardcover. 1987. 1st Edition. 8vo 134pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. DJ slightly foxed and spine slightly creased .

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1987.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a poor dust jacket (large piece has been torn from back cover - it is still present, but detached.). First US printing. 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.