HOUSE OF BONDAGE : A South African Black Man exposes in his own pictures and words the Bitter Life of his Homeland Today by Cole, Ernest; Thomas Flaherty Joseph Lelyveld - 1968

Random House, 1967-06. Hardcover. Good.

Ridge Press Book / Random House, 1967. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Random House, 1967-06-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York: Random House, 1967. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 191 pp. Photographic endpapers. Introduction by Joseph Lelyveld. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Prior owner name and inscriptionon the second front endpaper, else a very good clothbound copy in about very good illustrated dustwrapper. Wrapper has a long closed tear to the front panel. Still, presents well. A large and heavy book.

New York:: Random House, 1967. First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Signed by both "Ernest Cole" and Pulitzer Prize-winning author "Joseph Lelyveld 9.18.14" on the title page. Introduction by Joseph Lelyveld. Text written with Thomas Flaherty. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed. A searing exposé of the social and economic effects of apartheid on South Africa’s black population, House of Bondage was banned by the governmentAuthored by a self-taught black South African photojournalist, Ernest Cole, [it] shows his experience of apartheid from the inside. To do this, Cole managed to get himself officially reclassified as ‘coloured’ rather than ‘black gaining for himself more freedom of movement to carry out his self-imposed assignment" (Parr & Badger II:93, 106).