Description:
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton, first printing, early copy. Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped ($3.00) jacket (has all first edition points). The archival jacket has some chipping on top/bottom of spine. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: Charles's Scribner's Sons, 1948. With orange cloth and grey lettering on spine. No writing or marking in the book, 278 pp., some very light foxing on front/back cover.
Both the title page and copyright page have the same date (1948) but there is no "A" along with Scribner seal on copyright page.
Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped ($3.00) jacket (has all first edition points). The archival jacket has some chipping on top/bottom of spine.
The most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948, Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, "We have had many novels from… Read More
