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Nadine Gordimer. The Lying Days. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1953.
Price: US$38.75 + 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
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 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. Gollancz, London, 1953.
Price: US$355.19 + 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