Abrahams (Peter) Mine Boy
£325
London, Dorothy Crisp, [c.1946].
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s 6d.
First published in South Africa in 1946, Peter Abrahams’ classic novel Mine Boy exposed South Africa’s fledgling racial apartheid system and townships to the world – and its wisdom, vividness and political power endures to this day.
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Cloth a little rubbed at extremities; jacket a little worn at spine with some creasing, overall good.
Jacket artwork by Moore.
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