New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0374180555 . A first American trade edition of this collection of 16 stories by South Africa's Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014). The author has been praised for her straightforward handling of sometimes difficult subjects. --- In white paper-covered boards backed in black cloth with spine titling in gilt. Dust jacket with Lin Jammet's "Jump" painting to front panel. --- With a light strip of age-toning to edges of boards, else a bright, tightly-bound, sound copy. Unclipped jacket with minor rubbing and retailer's back cover sticker, otherwise bright and intact.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (10), 257 pages .

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Bookseller: Bluebird Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 84914
Title: Jump and Other Stories
Author: GORDIMER, Nadine
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
ISBN 10: 0374180555
ISBN 13: 9780374180553
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1991
Keywords: 0374180555

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