The Soft Voice of the Serpent by Gordimer Nadine (65 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. G- in mat illustrated wrappers, as issued. Trade paperback. 244 pp. Covers heavily rubbed, sunned, smudged. Scattered soiling, insect tracks. Front spine hinge very heavily rubbed with rust-colored staining. Page edges sunned, foxed. Spine cocked, tight, uncreased. Interior sunned, clean. No marks. Reading/reference copy.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. Book is clean and tight. Owner's name is on the inside. Book.

Paperback. first edition. S-1266 very good paperback,

Paperback. first edition. S-1266 very good - fine, spine crease, paperback,

Soft Cover Colour Printed Cove. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4th Edition. ### The Soft Voice of the Serpent - No.1749 - 1962 - A Penguin Book ### ~#~ THIS BOOK: Classified as GOOD: This book is a 1962 Penguin Publication. Orange and White softcover, in a good condition considering its age. Some minor shelf wear to the heel and some bumping, cover has a few black marks. As with most of the early post WWII books, the page edges are discoloured due to quality of paper, No Foxing, cover has a slight crease. ## ### These twenty-one short stories ? packed as it were, with feeling made visual ? are by the distinguished South African writer, Nadine Gordimer. When they were first published the critics were not slow to recognize in her a genuine discovery. 'There is wonderful talent at work here', wrote Margaret Lane in the Observer, and George Malcolm Thomson spoke of 'a new, deeply original talent' in the Evening Standard. ## She seems to apply the ear of a musician, the eye of an artist, and the sensitivity of a poet to these verbal sketches of little but significant events, played in front of a brilliantly lighted South African backdrop. They evoke the sensations of a moment in the reader's mind with uncanny power. ### ~#~ YOU MAY FIND THIS INTERESTING: Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence, bringing high-quality fiction and non-fiction to the mass market. Its success showed that large audiences existed for serious books. It also had a significant impact on public debate in Britain through its books on culture, politics, the arts, and science. ~#~ #### INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Please Note. FREE SHIPPING IS UK ONLY. PLEASE contact me for a shipping quotation. ####. No Author signature.

Condition: Very Good. 1962. Paperback. Very good clean copy showing some age and light shelf wear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1962. Paperback. Very good clean copy showing some age and light shelf wear. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. FIRST. PREV OWNERS NAME INSIDE COVER BOOK IS NEAR FINE WITH BOOK COVER MISSING A CHUNK ON THE FRONT WONDERFUL WRITING BY A GIFTED AUTHOR.

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

paperback; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

First Printing. Signet S1266. Very Good condition.

Condition: Good. 1953. No Edition Remarks. 244 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG/VG, slight toning to dj, price unclipped, first volume of short stories published in US, 1st edn.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. 244pgs, dust wrapper shows slight discoloration, some signs of spotting and a 1/4" tear at top of right front corner. These are moderate imperfections to an otherwise very nice dust wrapper.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.35.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Signed by previous owner. A small publication of 244 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The blue boards are a little shelf rubbed. The text within the book is clear and bright. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First Edition. Octavo, original gray cloth over boards, stained top edge, deckle edge, yellow dust jacket with black lettering and illustration. Collection of short stories from Nobel Prize-winning South African writer and political activist Nadine Gordimer. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket, slight wear to edges, foxing to dust jacket, slight darkening to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First UK edition of an excellent collection of Gordimer's stories. VG condition throughout, clean, crisp and bright. No markings. Blue boards only lightly worn; a little faded to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. First edition, hardcover with fading pink top edge, the book has a minor lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends, slighter wear to the cover corners, sunning to the spine and edges with a faint shadow from the jacket design on the spine, and mild toning to the pages. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, clean, Very Good copy in a Near Very Good dust jacket, which has sunning to the spine with toning to the covers and an offset to the back, bumps with light creasing to the spine ends and corners, a short chip to the tail of the spine, rubbing with smudges and small spots to the covers, and wear with a few tears to the edges. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + Small Chip Dj. Very Good +/Very Good + Small Chip Dj. First Edition. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Paperback Paperback Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 218pp. Yellow stain to page edges. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (40/4).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st American. VG copy in very worn dw with considerable loss, 244pp, the South African author's first volume of short stories.

Condition: VG. NY 1952 1st Simon and Schuster. Hardcover. Octavo, 244pp., cloth. VG in VG DJ.

Softcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Good+ in wrappers. Edgewear. A few stains. ; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 244 pages. Cloth boards. Dust jacket shows minor wear at edges--now protected with clear plastic cover. Original publishers card included in book. Clean, tight copy. Record # 510477.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. (USA) Stated 1st printing. No mrkings Near Fine in price-clipped Good dust ajcket with chipping to head and foot of spine and a small chi to top edge of back panel; Dj is in mylar sleeve. Cloth, 244pp. This was Gordimer's first published volume of short stories. (1.6 JM HOQ 100/c4 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The boards are slightly marked and sunned. One ownership plate and some tape residue. Soundly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The boards are a bit rubbed and sunned. Internally clean and tightly bound - slightly cocked. Foxing. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.