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A selection of our antiquarian books for sale Livingstone's Companions. GORDIMER (Nadine).
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Livingstone's Companions. GORDIMER (Nadine).

£100.00

DISCARDED BY GATOOMA PUBLIC LIBRARY

First UK Edition. 8vo. [205 x 131 x 25 mm]. [4]ff, 248pp. Bound in the publisher's original pink cloth and dustwrapper. (Short teat at head of wrapper, flaps cut with small loss of text, residue of tape, ticket removed, library stamps).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1972

A library copy with ink stamps of Gatooma Public Library and "Discarded" notice on front endleaves, pages 1 and 39 and fore-edge and manuscript acquisition notes ("10/6/72, Short Stories"). The book does not appear to have been read.

A collection of 16 short stories by the great South African writer Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014), winner of the Booker Prize in 1974 for The Conservationist and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Gatooma was a mining town in Rhodesia founded in the 1890s and named after the local Chief. With Zimbabwa's Independence in April 1982 it was renamed Kadoma and at some point Gordimer's stories were discarded.

Stock no. ebc8690

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DISCARDED BY GATOOMA PUBLIC LIBRARY

First UK Edition. 8vo. [205 x 131 x 25 mm]. [4]ff, 248pp. Bound in the publisher's original pink cloth and dustwrapper. (Short teat at head of wrapper, flaps cut with small loss of text, residue of tape, ticket removed, library stamps).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1972

A library copy with ink stamps of Gatooma Public Library and "Discarded" notice on front endleaves, pages 1 and 39 and fore-edge and manuscript acquisition notes ("10/6/72, Short Stories"). The book does not appear to have been read.

A collection of 16 short stories by the great South African writer Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014), winner of the Booker Prize in 1974 for The Conservationist and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Gatooma was a mining town in Rhodesia founded in the 1890s and named after the local Chief. With Zimbabwa's Independence in April 1982 it was renamed Kadoma and at some point Gordimer's stories were discarded.

Stock no. ebc8690

DISCARDED BY GATOOMA PUBLIC LIBRARY

First UK Edition. 8vo. [205 x 131 x 25 mm]. [4]ff, 248pp. Bound in the publisher's original pink cloth and dustwrapper. (Short teat at head of wrapper, flaps cut with small loss of text, residue of tape, ticket removed, library stamps).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1972

A library copy with ink stamps of Gatooma Public Library and "Discarded" notice on front endleaves, pages 1 and 39 and fore-edge and manuscript acquisition notes ("10/6/72, Short Stories"). The book does not appear to have been read.

A collection of 16 short stories by the great South African writer Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014), winner of the Booker Prize in 1974 for The Conservationist and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Gatooma was a mining town in Rhodesia founded in the 1890s and named after the local Chief. With Zimbabwa's Independence in April 1982 it was renamed Kadoma and at some point Gordimer's stories were discarded.

Stock no. ebc8690

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