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SIGNED 1st UK Ed The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer Booker Prize Winner
by Nadine Gordimer
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0224010352
- ISBN 13
- 9780224010351
- Seller
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Stoneville, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Rare first UK edition signed by the late Nobel laureate on the half title page; Book is solid and clean and with minor edge wear to mylar protected dust cover as well as perhaps minor freckling to closed side and lower pages; Overall, a lovely copy with signed examples seldom appearing on the open market.
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm. As the upheaval in Mehring's world increasingly resembles that in the country as a whole, it becomes clear that only a seismic shift in ideas and concrete action can avert annihilation.
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm. As the upheaval in Mehring's world increasingly resembles that in the country as a whole, it becomes clear that only a seismic shift in ideas and concrete action can avert annihilation.
Extended Description and Notes
Once upon a time, I lived down the road from Ms. Gordimer, who very graciously signed this for me.
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- Bookseller
- The Biblio Alchemist
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2011
- Title
- SIGNED 1st UK Ed The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer Booker Prize Winner
- Author
- Nadine Gordimer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in Cloth Boards with Dust Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224010352
- ISBN 13
- 9780224010351
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1987-12-27
- Keywords
- Signed First Edition
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