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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Translated from Afrikaans by Klaas Steytler. The book itself is a touch shelf-rubbed, but is tightly bound, with lovely gold gilt on the spine. The dust-jacket is shelf-rubbed and edge-worn, particularly at the top and bottom edges of the spine, where it has begun to tear and fray. Internally, there are various signatures, stamps and markings by previous owners on the front end page, as well as the half-title and title pages. Apart from this, the pages are crisp, clean and complete. Presents attractively in cellophane.
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Fair. No Jacket. 141 pages (complete). Pre-publication copy. Originally published in Afrikaans as "Ons Wag op die Kaptein". This translation is by Joubert's husband who is closely involved in her work in English. In general fair condition. Much read and owned. The functional cover is worn, torn and marked. It is however, secure and sure. There is evidence of usage throughout, but the pages are clean, very clear, wholesome and healthy. fk.
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London. 1982. Hodder & Stoughton. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0340281294. Translated from the Afrikaans by Klaas Steytler. 141 pages. hardcover. Cover design by Pat Doyle. keywords: Literature South Africa Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Ana-Paula had come to Africa as a bride, no longer young, but still with a child's romantic expectation of a new and exciting world free of the constraints of Lisbon family life. She found instead a frightening alien land, pulsing with an indefinable breath of its own earth. Her husband, Carlos, ran a coffee plantation in northern Angola, up on the Congolese border. His life had nothing to offer her. Childless, their fleeting point of sympathy was lost in the tropical dust. In the heat of Africa she had frozen over. Then one morning, seven years later, they woke to find the servants had gone in the night and the insurgents' jeeps were arriving from over the river. Elsa Joubert tells a relentlessly horrifying story with great restraint and precision. It is a grim parable for our times. inventory #612.