first edition
1986 · Johannesburg
by COETZEE, J.M.
Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1986. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm); dark brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-157,[3]pp. Hint of a lean, pinpoint wear to base of spine, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is gently spine-sunned, with some trivial wear, else Near Fine. True first edition of the South African Nobel Prize-winner's fifth novel, written around the exiting plot of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. (Inventory #: 51820)