Bloodsong and Other Stories of South Africa: And Other Stories of South Africa Tapa dura - 1990

Houghton Mifflin, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Houghton Mifflin, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. 1st US Printing. Hardcover. 0395432960 .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing. Only light wear; a nice copy..

Boston. 1987. June 1987. Houghton Mifflin. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0395432960. 134 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Four by Five. keywords: Literature South Africa . FROM THE PUBLISHER - An extraordinary voice tells these 11 stories, making use of familiar words in unfamiliar order and adding details so pungent that time and place are pinned in a sentence. In A Farm at Raraba a white South African soldier captures one of those yellow Hottentot types, with spaces between his peppercorns of hair, and they shelter together for the night. In the morning they go their separate ways, a pattern repeated in Death of the Nation, when the white boy from Natal takes leave of his black companion, Fakwes. The latter shares everything he knows with his white master, which bees sting and which merely buzz, how to salute the praying mantis and the white boy in turn teaches the unschooled black to read and write, presenting him with a New Testament, in Zulu. I will be a preacher, but not a… Leer más

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth. Near Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 134 pages, black quarter cloth. A near fine clean, hardcover first edition, first printing, with minimal shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. In a fine dust jacket, with original price.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. Hardcover. As New/Good/Very Good. Type: Book The stories in this book from South Africa report on the violence of the evening news as well as the quiet anguish and brutality suffered by all the nation's inhabitants, both black and white. Purple covers, black spine with gilt lettering, no markings in the book. 134 pages.

Houghton, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket..

Bookthrift Co. Used - Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Bookthrift Co, 1990-03. Hardcover. Good.