Dusklands by Coetzee, J. M

London: Secker & Warburg, 1982. Book. Very Good +. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. VG+, Shelfwear, top corners of boards bumped, light browning/VG, Edgewear, small tears, abrasion, spine fade. Two psychological dramas. Author's first work of fiction, originally published in South Africa in 1974. Photos on request..

London: Secker & Warburg, 1982. First UK Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. First Impression of the Nobel Prize-winning South African author's dauntingly complex debut novel, first published in Johannesburg, in 1974. Tall, slim 8vo: [10],125,[1]pp. Publisher's brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt, in a copper-colored typographic dust jacket. A Very Fine unread copy, in a Fine price-clipped jacket with barely a hint of fading to the spine panel. Actually, two conjoined novellas: "The Vietnam Project," centering on Eugene Dawn, a military specialist working to produce a strategic report on American propaganda policy for the Vietnam War, and "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee," chronicling the journeys of a white explorer into the heart of southern Africa during the eighteenth century. Taken together, the two parts "invite us to compare and contrast the forms of colonialism and imperialism under discussion." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in… Read More

London: Secker and Warburg, 1982. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Originally published in Johannesburg by Ravan Press, 1974. 125 p. 23 cm. Brown cloth hardcover in mylar-covered orange dustjacket. Front flap price clipped. Brown mark inside front hinge. First printing by Biddles Ltd. The author's first work of fiction, Dusklands criticizes the inherent violence of the Western world's colonial and imperial past. Really two novellas, The Vietnam Project, and The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee, the book tells the story of a 20th-century specialist in psychological warfare and an 18th-century Boer frontiersman. The last line of the first part, "I have high hopes of finding out whose fault I am," ranks as one of the most disturbing sentences in 20th-century fiction.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Originally published in Johannesburg by Ravan Press, 1974. 125 p. 23 cm. Brown cloth hardcover in mylar-covered orange dustjacket. Spine of jacket faded. First printing by Biddles Ltd. The author's first work of fiction, Dusklands criticizes the inherent violence of the Western world's colonial and imperial past. Really two novellas, The Vietnam Project, and The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee, the book tells the story of a 20th-century specialist in psychological warfare and an 18th-century Boer frontiersman. The last line of the first part, "I have high hopes of finding out whose fault I am," ranks as one of the most disturbing sentences in 20th-century fiction.