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117 Days
de Ruth First
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good +/Very Good
- Librería
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Precio
EUR 14.09EUR 9.86
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Sobre este artículo
New York, NY: Stein and Day Publishers, 1965 Stein and Day Publishers, New York. 1965. Hardcover. First Edition (NAP). Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O address label on the FFFP. Book Condition: Good +; shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and board bottom edges; wear through paper on lower front tip; dust soiling to textblock top. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($3.95); suntoning to spine; light wear and bumping to DJ upper and lower edges. Brown paper over boards with orange cloth overlay on the spine; bright gilt lettering on the spine; author name in gilt on front board. Green endpapers. 142 pp 8vo. This is the story of the imprisonment of a white woman (the author, Ruth First) by the totalitarian government of South Africa in 1963. It is an invaluable testimonial of the excesses of the apartheid system that chronicles the author's isolation and abuse at the hands of South African Police interrogators after her arrest. Upon her arrest, she was detained in solitary confinement under South Africa’s notorious ninety-day detention law. This is the story of the war of nerves that ensued between First and her Special Branch captors-a work that remains a classic portrait of oppression and the dignity of the human spirit. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
Sinopsis
An unforgettable account of defiance against political terror by one of South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid activists An invaluable testimonial of the excesses of the apartheid system, 117 Days presents the harrowing chronicle of journalist Ruth First's isolation and abuse at the hands of South African interrogators after her arrest in 1963. Upon her arrest, she was detained in solitary confinement under South Africa's notorious ninety-day detention law. This is the story of the war of nerves that ensued between First and her Special Branch captors-a work that remains a classic portrait of oppression and the dignity of the human spirit.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 016525
- Título
- 117 Days
- Autor
- Ruth First
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good +
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Editorial
- Stein and Day Publishers
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1965
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- South Africa, Apartheid System, South African Police, Ruth First, South African Prison, solitary confinement, anti-government newspapers, South African Communist party, African political affairs, African National Congress, anti-apartheid movement, overthr
- Catálogos del vendedor
- African Matters;
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Miembro de Biblio desde 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
Sobre Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
