Abrahams (Peter) Song of the City
£475
London, Dorothy Crisp, [1943].
First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
The first edition of this early work by one of the most influential and prominent South African writers, a “powerful novel of a Zulu boy, and of the struggle between an English woman and her husband of Boer descent when this war began.” (jacket)
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Bookseller’s small sticker to front endpaper; overall a very good copy in very good jacket.
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