[SIGNED] A Guest of Honour
by Gordimer, Nadine
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Hopewell, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Small Quarto (9 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 160 mm), 504 pages, in quarter cloth over illustrated boards, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket.
SIGNED by Nadine Gordimer on the half title. A novel about an Englishman who returns to the African country where he once worked as a colonial administrator. A white liberal, he had supported the country's independence movement and now he's back to see what has happened in the 10 years since independence.
This is a review copy of the first American edition, with a photo of Gordimer and promotional material laid in. The novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Britain in 1971. SCARCE SIGNED.
CONDITION: Small stain on bottom edge, upper board slightly bowed, but internally bright and unmarked. The dust jacket has very light edge wear and a crease in the rear flap. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 609
- Title
- [SIGNED] A Guest of Honour
- Author
- Gordimer, Nadine
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition, 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction; Nadine Gordimer
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nadine Gordimer;
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