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Cry the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
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About This Item
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 statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony." "The greatest novel to emerge out of the tragedy of South Africa, and one of the best novels of our time" (The New Republic).
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
- Burning Tree Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BTB00291
- Title
- Cry the Beloved Country
- Author
- Alan Paton
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, early printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Pages
- 278
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- First edition, Alan Paton, Cry Belived Country
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