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Nadine Gordimer. The Lying Days. Victor Gollancz, 1953.
Price: US$7.69 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1953. 4th Impression. 367 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Gordimer, Nadine:. The lying days.. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1953.
Price: US$8.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 367 Seiten 367 S. Papier gebräunt Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 350
Seller: Schürmann und Kiewning GbR, Naumburg, Germany
Nadine Gordimer. The Lying Days. Victor Gollancz, London, 1953.
Price: US$8.86 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First novel by famous South African writer. Title page has folds
Seller: London League Publications Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Gordimer, Nadine. The Lying Days. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1953.
Price: US$15.29 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fading to the spine with a little fraying to the top edge and light marking to the front and rear panels. Corners slightly bumped with a dent in the top edge of the rear panel. Gift message in ink to front free endpaper. Book has browning to the page edges which have a few darker spots also. Endpapers browned with a few brown spots to the title page and a tiny tear in the top edge of the half-title page. No jacket. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Gordimer, Nadine. The Lying Days. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1953.
Price: US$31.85 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 8vo. Pp 367. Original cloth, lettered gilt to spine. There is heavy fading to parts of the spine and light wear to the edges, with corners bruised. The unclipped pictorial d/w shows considerable loss to the spine, wear to the edges and moderate soiling to the panels. Foxing to the edges but internally clean and sound. No inscriptions.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Gordimer, Nadine. The Lying Days. Victor Gollancz, 1953.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In red cloth. Browning to page edges. No jacket.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Nadine Gordimer. The Lying Days. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1953.
Price: US$38.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good book in red cloth covers with gilt titles to a lightly sunned spine; tiny mark to spine.Internally very good; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR to flyleaf where there is also an owner's name; photograph of the author taped to paste down; binding tight; no foxing.
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by the author, Nadine Gordimer. Spine ends have been repaired. Publication of 367 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Nadine Gordimer. The Lying Days. Victor Gollancz, London, 1953.
Price: US$50.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st ed. VG book in G+ lightly edgeworn and soiled jacket, darkening and light foxing to page edge, penciled name in front of South African literary critic and activist Ursula Barnett (1925-2016)
Seller: Object Relations, IOBA, London, United Kingdom
Gordimer, Nadine. The Lying Days. Victor Gollancz, 1953.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed by Gordimer. 1st edition. The dust jacket is edge worn, chipped, marked. The boards are edge worn, a bit cocked and marked. Tanning, a bit stained on bottom page edges- not affecting the text, minor handling marks within the book. Aside from this, it is still in good condition, excellent binding and intact. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
GORDIMER, Nadine.. THE LYING DAYS.. Victor Gollancz, London, 1953. First Edition., 1953.
Price: US$66.08 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 367pp. A very good hardback copy in dust jacket with edgewear and tanned spine, and to rear cover. Lightly tanned fore edges. Small bookseller label on front paste-down.
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
GORDIMER Nadine. The Lying Days. , 1953.
Price: US$82.55 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., original red cloth. London, Victor Gollancz. Inscribed by the author: ?Erica Kreutzberger, Nadine Gordimer? An excellent copy, spine slightly faded.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$87.91 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One first edition, first impression and four later impressions, 1953-63; original fairly clean and undamaged cloth wrappers with straight boards, most with sharp corners; no previous owner's marks or gift dedications; clean and tight text blocks with no spotting to text pages, but occasional spots to some end papers. No dust jackets. Additional postage will be needed for five books.
Seller: M&B Books, London, United Kingdom
GORDIMER, Nadine. The Lying Days. Victor Gollancz, London, 1953.
Price: US$108.56 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Victor Gollancz Ltd. London 1953. First edition. NAP. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Minor tanning and spotting to top fore edge. Small amount of foxing. Inscription free. Dust Jacket Not price clipped. and has just very minor shelf wear.
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
Gordimer, Nadine. The Lying Days. Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1953.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by Author(s)This is a first edition of Nadine Gordimer's first novel. It was signed by her on the frontispage. The Observer wrote of this book in anticipation: "A difficult name to remember; but one had better remember it . her coming first novel is something it would be stupid to miss . The publishers . do not exaggerate in their claim that 'there is wonderful talent at work here'". This copy has a clear cellophane protective cover. The dustjacket beneath is worn about its edges and has open wounds to the flap seams and the head and foot of the spine. There are handling marks. The price has not been snipped. The red cloth cover is in very good condition. There are shallow shelf depressions at the head and foot of the spine. These too have small areas of discolouration. Inside the frontispage has an ex-libris plate. The pages are relaxed, clean, confident, clear and complete. A considerately owned and read book. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
GORDIMER, Nadine. The Lying Days: A Novel. Victor Gollancz, London, 1953.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Contemporary owner name, endpapers trifle foxed, spine lightly rubbed, near fine in a slightly spine-tanned very good dust jacket with faint soil, modest edgewear and a small internal tape repair. First novel from the South African author and activist, of a white girl growing up in South Africa. Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Gordimer, Nadine. The Lying Days. Gollancz, London, 1953.
Price: US$350.36 + shipping
Description: (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1953). First UK Edition. SIGNED COPY. Publisher's red boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Boards exceptionally bright and clean. A bookseller's ticket to the rear paste-down and spine tips pushed overall a near fine copy. The VG+ dustwrapper is priced 12/6 net to the inside flap (as called for). The dustwrapper is complete with the usual toning to the spine and has creasing and a touch of fraying to the spine tips. A notoriously fragile post-war dustwrapper this is a nicer copy than normally seen. This is Gordimers debut novel and follows on from the publication of two collections of short stories, Face to Face (1949), and The Soft Voice of the Serpent (1952). This copy has an attractive book-plate to the front paste-down of Havelock William Kinsey (1918-2012) who was a founder member of the Military History Society of South Africa and wrote numerous articles for the Military History Journal. Signed by the Author to the front free end-paper. "Nadine Gordimer's first novel.tells the story of Helen Shaw, daughter of white middle-class parents in a small gold-mining town in South Africa. As Helen comes of age, so does her awareness grow of the African life around her. Her involvement, as a bohemian student, with young blacks leads her into complex relationships of emotion and action in a culture of dissension" (GoodReads). The novel is semi-autobiographical. Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political activist, and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has in the words of Alfred Nobel been of very great benefit to humanity". Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom