Search Results: Innocents In Africa by Drury Pifer

Paperback. Very Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

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.

Penguin Books / Granta. New edition. Paperback. Used; Good. Simply Brit – welcome to our online used book store, where affordability meets great quality. Dive into a world of captivating reads without breaking the bank. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there’s something for every literary palate. All orders are shipped within 24 hours and our lightning fast-delivery within 48 hours coupled with our prompt customer service ensures a smooth journey from ordering to delivery. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. 02/02/1995

Granta Books, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First impression.

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… Read More

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.

Penguin Books / Granta, 1994-04-07. Hardcover. Very Good. 2.9949 cent in x 20.4822 cent in x 13.4772 cent in. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 8vo., viii, [4], 338 pp. Bound in quarter tan cloth over white boards, in white dust jacket with color cover illustrations. Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs. Fine bright, clean copy, in Near Fine dust jacket.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo, 6 x 9, xii + 338 pages, illustrated. No dust jacket. Cover is minimally worn. Outer edge of book block is stained (prob. coffee).

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co.. Hardcover. 1994. 1st Edition. 8vo 338pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations The author's father went to work in the gold and diamond mines of Oppenheimer's South Africa during the Great Depression .

London:: Granta,, 1994. First UK edition. Cloth. Fine in Fine DJ. DJ very lightly sunned and dusted.

Penguin Books / Granta, 1994-04-07. Hardcover. Very Good. 3.5973 in x 19.9848 in x 13.7895 in.

Penguin Books / Granta, 1995-02-02. Paperback. Good. Book is in good condition. Slight discolouration to the pages.

London: Granta Books. 1994. 1st ed., 8vo, 338 p., b/w plates, maps, as new in like d.j. 338 The story of the an American family living in Africa in the last era of colonialism, and of their escape 16 years later 1st edition. Boards.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

HBJ. Collectible - Very Good/Good. 1994. First Printing First Edition. Hard Cover. (J317) .

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