"The Soft Voice Of the Serpent and Other Stories

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.50), generally toned and soiled, lightly rubbed, a few small closed tears at the edges. Grey buckram, toned at the edges, with a pink ink label and gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. VG-/Good-. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover with dust jacket that still has the original price of $3.50 on the front flap. DJ shows scuffing and spotting with numerous chips and small tears present. The underside of the jacket was… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Binding slightly cocked, board edges and spine slightly sunned, near fine in a very good dust jacket with tiny nicks, a short closed tear on the rear panel and a slightly toned spine.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Fine copy fine dust jacket with very light wear. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. First Novel. The South African Nobel-prize-winning first book in America. With card from publisher asking info. on this book.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1953. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First English edition. Tip of one corner is lightly bumped, very near fine copy in very good dust jacket with shallow chipping at the spine ends. The publisher's file copy, noted as such in pencil on front fly and with pencil note "O.K." on front pastedown and front panel… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in an about near fine dust jacket with light soil, faint toning and minor edgewear. Second collection of short stories from the South African author and activist. Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.

United States: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Clean text. Unread. Toning to the text edges, paste downs, and end pages. Toning to the board edges. Stated First printing. Grey cloth boards, pink/gold stamped lettering. Dustcover not price clipped, Toning to the spine and edges. New mylar cover. Uncommon copy of the Nobel Prize winning author's much sought after first book.. 1st… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz, 1953. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First UK edition of an excellent collection of Gordimer's stories. VG condition throughout, clean, crisp and bright. No markings. Blue boards only lightly worn; a little faded to spine.

Victor Gollancz Ltd , 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by previous owner. A small publication of 244 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The blue boards are a little shelf rubbed. The text within the book is clear and bright. The binding is excellent. GK. Our… Read more about this item

Penguin, 1962. Paperback. Good. 1962. First Edition Thus. 218 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1954. First Edition; Third Impression. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Stamp to front pastedown. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Victor Gollancz, 1954. Hardcover. Good. 1954. Third Impression. 244 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Heavy sunning to spine.

Victor Gollancz, 1953. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1953. 2nd Impression. 244 pages. Yellow dust jacket over blue cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.

Victor Gollancz. Very Good. . 1954 3rd imp, bright clean copy, name on endpaper, no other markings, no dustjacket, Professional booksellers since 1981 . 1954. Hardcover.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1952. (USA) Stated 1st printing. No mrkings Near Fine in price-clipped Good dust ajcket with chipping to head and foot of spine and a small chi to top edge of back panel; Dj is in mylar sleeve. Cloth, 244pp. This was Gordimer's first published volume of short stories. (1.6 JM HOQ 100/b4. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good.… Read more about this item

London: Gollancz,, 1953.. First edition.. 244 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with gentle overall edgewear and light tanning to spine.

Victor Gollancz Ltd , 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Publication of 244 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. On the inner board there is a scuffed mark and a minor tear. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good -. 244pgs, dust wrapper shows slight discoloration, some signs of spotting and a 1/4" tear at top of right front corner. These are moderate imperfections to an otherwise very nice dust wrapper.

Gollancz, 1953. Hard cover. 4. Very good. 244p., 19 cm. Very Good. Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Page edges are lightly tanned. Cover has moderate wear. Binding is discolored. There is wear at the top..

Signet Book, 1962. Third. Paperback. Good.