Innocents in Africa: An American Family's Story Tapa dura - 1994

San Diego, CA, U.S.A.: Harcourt Trade Publishers. Very Good/Near Fine. 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0151075646 .

New York ET AL: Harcourt Brace & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. First Printing. Hardcover. 0151075646 . Dust jacket is rubbed. A newspaper article is laid in, and another is taped to the back inside cover page. ; Photographs .

Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1994. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: Harcourt. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780151075645 . Very light edge wear, dust soiling tpop page edges in dust jacket with very light wear; Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 338 pages;


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US: Harcourt, 1994-02-01. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 338 pages, b&w photos. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462310

New York: Harcourt Brace,, 1994 First Edition. Cloth & bds; 8vo.,338pp. photos. Fine in Fine D/j.

Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. No external library markings, d/j taped on, library label and withdrawn stamp on front endpaper, d/j is lightly waved under mylar. 338 pages.. First Edition, 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine d/j. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

NY: Harcourt Brace , 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs, 338 pages. With wry humor and sharp observation, playwright Pifer elegantly mixes memory and research to reconstruct the world of his South African boyhood from 1933 to 1945. Pifer's father, an idealistic mining engineer in search of challenge and stability during the Depression, found it in Africa, but his earnest American egalitarianism soon put him in conflict with Afrikaner mine overseers, and his career under magnate Sir Ernest Oppenheimer stalled. The author deftly evokes his family--"my mother had the freedom of a disobedient daughter"--and the isolation of the desert town of Oranjemund. The book is even more resonant in its snapshots of mid-century Southern Africa: the still-simmering enmity between Afrikaners and the English; the ripples from Hitler's war in what prior to WW I had been the German territory of South West… Leer más

Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. 1st printing. Inscribed by Piper on front flyleaf. A tight copy in quarter cloth binding that shows some reader's use and handling. Unclipped dust jacket is shelf rubbed.. Inscribed and Signed. First Edition. Hardccover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.