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1960-1987 Friday's Footprint (1960) A Soldier's Embrace: Stories (1980) A Sport of Nature (1987)
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Description
First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
A nice set of three first edition Nadine Gordimer novels in the publisher's original cloth with the original bright, unclipped dust wrappers.
All volumes are the first edition.
This set contains:
Friday's Footprint (1960)
A Soldier's Embrace: Stories (1980)
A Sport of Nature (1987)
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer 'who through her magnificent epic writing has [...] been of very great benefit to humanity.'
Gordimer was one of the most honoured female writers of her generation.
There is a publisher's fault to the cloth of A Soldier's Embrace resulting in a single crease across the front and rear boards.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth with the original bright, unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, excellent. Slight shelf wear to extremities and spine heads and tails. Publisher's fault to cloth of A Soldier's Embrace resulting in single crease across front and rear boards. Dust wrappers mostly very smart. Flaws are to Friday's Footprint vol, including marginal age toning and creasing to wrap, with the odd chip and closed tear to extremities. Large damp stain to front wrap. The odd mark to the wrap. Other dust wrappers excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, slightly age toned to Friday's Footprint. Mark to Sport of Nature fore edge.
Near Fine
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