KONTAKION FOR YOU DEPARTED (Signed)

First edition signed by Alan Paton on title page.

149 pp. Aquamarine cloth boards with title on spine in black and gilt. Decorated, unclipped dustjacket with some wear.

The book serves as a personal tribute to his first wife, Dorrie Paton, chronicling their long marriage, her life, and her death.

It portrays Dorrie as a courageous and loyal figure, intertwining their personal story with Paton's broader struggles for justice and social change in apartheid-era South Africa.

It was written shortly after her death, the title draws from Orthodox Christian liturgy "kontakion", a short hymn for the departed, underscoring its elegiac tone.