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van der Post, Laurens. In a Province. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1934.
Price: US$820.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: scarce first edition of van der post's first novel. tipped in original van der post signature on the title page in green ink. the original boards are worn, faded and a little marked. some foxing affecting early and late pages, but little in the body of the book. a small stamp at the rear stating that this is the 'colonial cloth edition' the bookplate of a previous owner is under the front board. it is rather attractive and was from the collection of A.A. Fullalove.the binding is strong.the original jacket is from a 2nd edition published many years later. it is worn and marked and there are small tears.it presents quite well in cellophane. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
LAURENS VAN DER POST.. In a Province. A novel.. Coward-McCann Inc., New York [1934]., 1934.
Price: US$1208.42 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first American edition, printed from the UK sheets. 8vo. 350pp. Brown cloth lettered in silver at the spine. A touch of bruising to the backstrip ends, else a fine copy in slightly dust soiled and nicked non-price-clipped dust wrapper with a dozen quite small areas of edge-loss, and the rear flap detached but included. The first American edition of author's first book, which was issued the same year as the Hogarth Press UK edition and remains even more uncommon (alas, the design of this US dust wrapper is nothing in comparison to the splendid Anthony Butts example which adorned the Hogarth Press edition).
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2226.04 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, in a bright example of the Anthony Butts jacket, of this scarce Hogarth Press novel, the debut of Woolf's friend Laurens van der Post. Of the 1,250 copies printed, Woolmer states that 300 were pulped. Woolmer 353. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in black. With dust jacket designed by Anthony Butts. Some very mild mottling to cloth and a trivial rubbing, a few stain marks to lower edge of pages, a very good copy with the dust jacket bright, small damp stain to foot of spine, and a little light tissue restoration to the ends and corners.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Van der Post (Laurens). In a Province. Hogarth Press, London, 1934.
Price: US$2556.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, 7s6d. The first edition of Van der Post's first novel, published under the aegis of Leonard & Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press. The work was considered significant at the time due to its perspective on race relations in South Africa. An attractively jacketed first edition. Cloth very slightly dulled at spine; jacket slightly tanned at spine, but really a very good plus copy.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
van der Post, Laurens. In a Province. Hogarth Press, London, 1934.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, lower pastedown and jacket stamped Colonial Cloth Edition. 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First Book, in Superior Condition. First book by Laurens van der Post, who edited with William Plomer (whose debut novel Turbott Wolfe was also published by the Woolfs) "Plomer and Campbell, with the help of a young Afrikaner journalist, Laurens van der Post, edited and wrote almost the entire contents of Voorslag during 1926. This, the first bilingual South African literary journal, attacked race prejudice as Turbott Wolfe had done, and produced the same angry reaction" (ODNB). A choice copy with the dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket are stamped in ink Colonial Cloth Edition (Woolmer does not note such a variant). SCARCE. Woolmer 353 Original green cloth, spine lettered in black. Near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with design by Anthony Butts First edition, lower pastedown and jacket stamped Colonial Cloth Edition.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3180.06 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, in an excellent example of the Anthony Butts jacket, of this scarce Hogarth Press novel, the debut of Woolf's friend Laurens van der Post. Of the 1,250 copies printed, Woolmer states that 300 were pulped. Woolmer 353. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in black. With dust jacket designed by Anthony Butts. A hint of sunning to spine, the boards otherwise bright, the binding sound, internally crisp. A superb copy in fresh jacket with only minimal rubbing to corners.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom