Cry, the Beloved Country
by Paton, Alan
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Scribner's, 1948. Book. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo. First edition, later printing. Published in same year as first. 8vo. Cloth binding, 278 pp. A clean solid book with discoloration to the cloth spine, dustjacket is chipped at extremities, but still intact, repaired where possible internally. In protective mylar cover. Good in good dustjacket..
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Rose's Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013935
- Title
- Cry, the Beloved Country
- Author
- Paton, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Scribner's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- SOUTH AFRICA APARTHEID
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africa;
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About the Seller
Rose's Books, IOBA
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts
About Rose's Books, IOBA
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