9780798107891 - Willemsdorp (7 resultados)

Hardcover. First edition. 208pp. Octavo [22 cm] Orange paper covered boards with a white ink stamped title. Very good. The edges of the covers are mildly bumped and rubbed. The dust jacket is in very good condition. Lightly rubbed and soiled. There is a small 1 inch wide by 1/8 inch deep loss from the top edge of the front panel. There are several chips in the top edge of the dust jacket as well. Herman Charles Bosman was a South African writer and journalist who became famous for capturing the rhythms of backveld Afrikaans speech although he wrote in English. He is widely viewed as the greatest short-story writer to come out of South Africa.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Hardcover in jacket. 2th edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is shelf rubbed and marked.ownership inscription.Well bound.good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 2nd Edition. Small edge tears on jacket and marked.Internally clean.Excellent binding.Very good copy.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Small tear on jacket and marked.Internally clean.Excellent binding.Very good copy.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good, slight scuff Marks. Third Impression. Herman Charles Bosman wrote his second novel Willemsdorp in 1951 after he had moved into a new home in Lombardy East in Johannesburg. The setting is Pietersburg in 1947-48. He had attempted to write a novel on city life but had abandoned it, thinking that he would do a better job on life in a small town. He wrote 145 pages and then abandoned the attempt, starting on a second version which is published here for the first time. In her biography of Bosman, Sunflower to the Sun, Valerie Rosenberg writes as follows about Willemsdorp: "As he wrote his second attempt, Pietersburg seemed to come alive. There are no obvious devices such as a description of a landscape, a resurrection of the koppie or the grass.One simply knows one is in Pietersburg and knows the way a hutcher's shop smells and sounds, even when it is closed and silent. And knows the way a bar smells in Pietersburg." --------------------- 208 pages ---------- Orders over $100.00 are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: Approx 5½" Wide - 8½" Tall.