Johannesburg: Silver Leaf Books, 1949
8vo (18,6 x 12,3 x 1,8cm) 164pp. Original blue hardcover binding, with silver lettering to spine. With dust jacket.
Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Dated 1955, at the University of Iowa literary festival.
Gordimer’s first book was Face to Face (1949), a collection of short stories. In 1953 a novel, The Lying Days, was published. Both exhibit the clear, controlled, and unsentimental style that became her hallmark. Her stories concern the devastating effects of apartheid on the lives of South Africans—the constant tension between personal isolation and the commitment to social justice, the numbness caused by the unwillingness to accept apartheid, the inability to change it, and the refusal of exile. (britannica.com)
Condition: Dust jacket in fair condition. The flaps have come loose. Rubbing, edgewear, and small chips to edges of the dust jacket. Small open tear to top of spine of dust jacket. Jacket has been covered with protective Brodart plastic sleeve. Book in good condition. Some wrinkling to the boards and spine. Slight edgewear and light stains to the boards. Minor creases to top corners of front free endpaper, title page, and p. 3. Old stamp to front free endpaper. Minor marks with pink pencil to fore edge of p. 101. Text is clean and clear. Copy is well bound.
- Jacket Condition: Fair
- Binding Condition: Good
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 8vo
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