Van der Post (Laurens) In a Province
£1,375
London, Hogarth Press, 1934.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, 7s6d.
The first edition of Van der Post’s first novel, published under the aegis of Leonard & Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press. The work was considered significant at the time due to its perspective on race relations in South Africa. An attractively jacketed first edition.
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Cloth very slightly dulled at spine; jacket slightly tanned at spine, but really a very good plus copy.
Jacket artwork by Anthony Butts.
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