The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places by Nadine Gordimer ISBN 13: 9780224025348

Hardback. Very Good.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. 356pp Notes. Index. Near fine. Size: 8vo - over 7Âľ - 9Âľ" Tall

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1988. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0224025341

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1988. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780224025348

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1988. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9780224025348

Jonathan Cape, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7Âľ" - 9Âľ" Tall. Slight rubbing and browning, minor nicks to jacket (chiefly to top edges); slight internal browning to edges. vii, [1], 356 pages. Selected writings from over 40 years' worth of about 160 titles; contains 23 pieces in all (including the 2 'Letters from Johannesburg', 1976 and 1985). Editor's acknowledgments, introduction and notes; includes bibliographical references and index.b/w Title vignettes; Title Pages (red/black).

Jonathan Cape, 1988. 0224025341. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (small mark on on upper cover - otherwise near Fine in protective wrapepr, not price clipped). Pp. vii + 356 (no inscriptions).

London England: Jonathan Cape. Hardback. First Edition. Foxing to edge and inside D/J. flaps. Over four decades of writing fiction the author has conveyed imaginateively the realities of transition in South Africa. Many may not realise that she has also produced a remarkable array of non-fiction which reveals much about the transitions of the artist herself. Stephen Clingman, in close collaboration with Nadine Gordimer, has compiled an exhaustive catalogue of some 160 titles, from which he has made this outstanding selection. As he explians in his introduction, the essays illustrate the relationship between outer and inner change for the writer of conscience in South Africa. From the relative optimisim of the 1950s, to Sharpeville and the banning in the 1960s of the ANC and Pan-Africanist Congress, to the challenges of the Black Consciousness movement in the 1970s and the 'interregnum' of the 1980s, Nadine Gordimer rigorously analyses prolitical events - while examining the political… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988-01-01. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0.

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

London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0224025341 . A beautiful unread first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. Light foxing to page edges. Dustjacket shows slight wear to edges and foxing at flap edges; A collection of 23 biographical and autobiographical essays written from the 1950s to 1985 on writing, censorship and South African politics. A South African native, Nobel Prize Laureate Gordimer provides an intimate picture of that country and the changing life under apartheid. She believes that racial prejudice is abhorrent, especially when sanctioned by the government, and that it is the writer's job to speak the truth; 8vo; viii, 356, [4] pages .