Publisher's black hardcover binding with pictorial dust jacket.
320pp. Signed "Harry Bloom, May '56" on title page.
Binding tight with no inscriptions. Light foxing on endpapers. Contents clean. Dust jacket not price clipped with moderate age-associated edge wear.
Harry Bloom (1913-1981) was a South African journalist, novelist, activist and lecturer. He and his wife worked as war correspondents during the Second World War and covered the Nuremberg Trials after the war.
As an anti-Apartheid activist he worked closely with Nelson Mandela in the 1950's. He was detained in prison for 45 days during the state of emergency which followed immediately after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960. He left the country in 1963 in opposition to Apartheid and started a new life as an academic and journalist in England. He remarried in 1967 and was the stepfather of Hollywood actor Orlando Bloom.
Harry Bloom was also the author of the famous African jazz opera King Kong, published in 1961.
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