251pp. Hardcover binding with gilt lettering to spine, with dust jacket. Overall good condition. The jacket has light rubbing and spots of slight edgewear, and some sunning on its spine. Slight sunning to spine of book. Pages have slightly yellowed. Some splitting to gutters between a few pages. Text is clean, and copy is still decently bound.
Inscribed by the author to Eddy Magid, then-mayor of Johannesburg.
‘In this powerful and moving memoir, Rudolf Jordan, born in Mannheim on the Rhine, vividly recreates one of the most important and interesting periods in recent history – a time in which social and political structures underwent sudden and drastic changes, reshaping the world for all future generations. From the idyllic years before the First World War, Jordan describes the war years, relates the unexpected shock of the Kaiser’s desertion to Holland, and poignantly recounts his spiritual searching in the years after the war by a people released from the strong traditions which had failed their country. Jordan emigrated to South Africa in 1933, where he had to start again, becoming in turn bookkeeper, seedsman, farmer and philosopher, and later taking some part in public life, representing the private sector on national and international bodies.’ (from synopsis on dust jacket of book)
Size: 8vo (21,5 x 14,5cm)
New York: Frederick Fell, 1981
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 8vo
