Cry, The Beloved Country [Limited Edition, Signed by the Author]
by Paton, Alan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket as issued
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Book. Illus. by Howard Rogers. Near Fine. Full-Leather. Signed by Author(s). Limited Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. xxxii (iv) 297 (4) pp, illus. Limited Edition with Special contents, 1978. Tissue Protected Signature on prelim. 6.75" x 9.5". Tan full-leather with decorative gilt pattern on boards and spine, two raised bands, gilt lettering to spine, gilt text block, and satin ribbon. Minor traces of prior use on exterior gilt, tight & square binding, pages unmarked, clean, paper well preserved. This Limited Edition has been privately printed, and individually signed by the author..
Synopsis
Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel by South African author Alan Paton. It was first published in New York in 1948 by Charles Scribner's Sons and in London by Jonathan Cape; noted American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year's meeting of the American Booksellers Association that there had been "only three novels published since the first of the year that were worth reading ... Cry, The Beloved Country, The Ides of March, and The Naked and the Dead.
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- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006039
- Title
- Cry, The Beloved Country [Limited Edition, Signed by the Author]
- Author
- Paton, Alan
- Illustrator
- Howard Rogers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as issued
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- Large Octavo
- Keywords
- LITERATURE MODERN AMERICAN WRITERS FICTION NOVEL
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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