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White Boy Running
by Hope, Christopher
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374289255
- ISBN 13
- 9780374289256
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About This Item
New Y, New York, USA: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1988. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing of First US Edition. Hardcover in Fine Condition with Fine Dust Jacket. One of South Africa's leading novelists describes his first visit to his native land in twelve years. In 1987 Christopher Hope revisited the scenes of his youth to explore changes and the story of his own family in South Africa, interweaving it with the bloody story of Boer, Zulu, and Briton that is the patrimony of all South Africans. Fine binding of black half-cloth with copper titles and copper paper-wrapped boards, very clean and unmarked, tight and solid. Pages very clean, free from any markings, no creases. Bright, clean, unclipped jacket with jacket photograph by Andreas Heumann. . 273 pages. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1988,
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- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015106
- Title
- White Boy Running
- Author
- Hope, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374289255
- ISBN 13
- 9780374289256
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New Y, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- HOPE, CHRISTOPHER JOURNEYS SOUTH AFRICA ZULUS BOER BRITON NOVELISTS, AFRICAN, 20TH CENTURY TRAVEL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography. Autobiography;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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