FIRST SOUTH AFRICAN EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Large 8vo. Quarter black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, white paper boards. Corners bumped. Faint spots to edges. Signed by Gordimer in blue pen on half-title. Else, clean, tight and bright. In the original vibrant dust jacket: creasing and wear to edges and extremities, shelf-wear, original price sticker to rear panel (flapping), nevertheless, bright and bonnie. Very good/ very good. A pleasing copy of Gordimer’s eighth short story collection, published in the year she won the Nobel Prize for Literature.