July's People
by Gordimer, Nadine
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (small tearing but in protective sleeve); brown clothbound boards, gilt spine titling, tex
- ISBN 10
- 0224019325
- ISBN 13
- 9780224019323
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (small tearing but in protective sleeve); brown clothbound boards, gilt spine titling, text block firm, pages unmarked and tight, with light sunning at edges.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A fictionalised account of the end of Apartheid in South Africa written 15 years before it happened, by the South African author & political activist Nadine Gordimer who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel was banned in her native country.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC132259
- Title
- July's People
- Author
- Gordimer, Nadine
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (small tearing but in protective sleeve); brown clothbound boards, gilt spine titling, tex
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224019325
- ISBN 13
- 9780224019323
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1981
- Pages
- 160
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, South Africa, Nobel, prize, Gordimer
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.34 g
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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