Nadine gordimer the conservationist new york

  • The Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer.
  • This is yet another beautifully crafted novel from Nadine Gordimer, framed within the early pre-revolt period of the Apartheid era in her native South Africa.
  • The Conservationist.

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    Accession number: 

    PML 192716

    Author: 

    Gordimer, Nadine.

    Published: 

    New York : Viking Press, 1975.

    Description: 

    252 p. ; 22 cm

    Credit: 

    Man Booker Prize Collection, purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund and the Drue Heinz Fund, 2010.

    Notes: 

    Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 1974.

    Binding: 

    Brown boards backed with brown cloth, with pictorial wrapper designed by Craig Dodd.

    Inscriptions/Markings: 

    Inscribed by the author on front flyleaf, "Inscribed for Irene Worth - with much admiration. Nadine Gordimer New York, 1975."

    Provenance: 

    Inscribed by the author to Irene Worth; Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.

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    The Conservationist - Hardcover

    The Conservationist

    Gordimer, Nadine

    Published by The Viking Press, 1975

    ISBN 10: 067023883X / ISBN 13: 9780670238835

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    Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: /Good+. VG/GOOD+. brown photo-illustrated jacket, dust jacket in archival plastic protector. Small chips to corners and edges of jacket, price clipped flaps, lightly sun faded spine, crisply bound, exceedingly clean ord. Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com Orders shipped via USPS. Seller Inventory # 331204

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    First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Tan boards quarterbound in brown cloth. The spine is stamped in green and gilt. Bright yellow topstain. Textured tan endpapers. 282pps. An excellent copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No reading wear or previous owner's markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has modest wear to the extremities and along the top edge. There are, also, a couple of small abrasions on the front panel. The original price is intact. Winner of the Booker Prize. ".A wealthy industrialist, attractive to women and not yet fifty, Mehring wants for nothing that white priviledge in a black country can bring him. With a luxury flat in the city and an expense-account farm in the country, what he is prepared at all costs to conserve is his way of life. The Conservationist is a deeply fascinating study of a man both reckless and calculating, subconsciously seeking human alienation as a form of self-preservati

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