Face to Face.: Short Stories.
by GORDIMER, Nadine
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Johannesburg: Silver Leaf Books,, 1949. First edition, first impression, of the author's first book. Face to Face was released a year after the introduction of apartheid in South Africa. A fierce opponent of the policy, Gordimer spent the ensuing decades campaigning against the system and documenting it in her fiction to great international acclaim, eventually winning her the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in silver. With dust jacket. Two tiny chips to top edges of boards, contents lightly toned. An excellent copy in a rubbed and faintly edge-chipped jacket that has been slightly nibbled by mice along the top edge of the rear panel. Driver, Dry, MacKenzie, & Read A1.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 91257
- Title
- Face to Face.
- Author
- GORDIMER, Nadine
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Johannesburg: Silver Leaf Books,
- Date Published
- 1949
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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