Waiting for the Barbarians by Coetzee, First Edition (24 results)

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A magistrate in a country village protests the army's treatment of members of the barbarian tribes taken prisoner during a civil war and finds himself arrested as a traitor. Moving and powerful, this book presents the dark tale of an aging magistrate in an African frontier settlement, who finds himself becoming increasingly sympathetic toward the indigenous "barbarians" that the colonial empire's forces brutalize. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the...

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. First U.S. Edition. Page edges darkened (as usual). Rear cover wrinkled at top edge. Clean and unmarked.

Card covers. Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. 156 pages. Covers creased; paper toned; no inscriptions. Binding is sound, with no spine crease. First US issue, printed in the US, with prices for UK, Canada, and US on rear.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Hebrew edition. Translated by G. M. Kotzi. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers. Wraps lightly rubbed with modest edgewear, near fine. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. Basis for the Philip Glass opera of the same name and the 2019 film directed by Ciro Guerra in his English-language directorial debut.

Original Wraps - Single Claspe. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American edition of the Nobel laureate's 1st book published in the US. This is a paperback original, near fine in black pictorial wraps with the pages typically age-toned.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Printed wrappers. Slight shelf wear and a little rubbed to spine. Some creasing to corners. Leaves age-toned. SIGNED to title page by author. First American edition (paperback original). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, Second Printing. Signed by Coetzee with brief inscription reading, "Gail Baines, with warmest wishes, John Coetzee 1986" Owner crest pressed on endpapers. Gail Baines was student of Coetzee at Buffalo. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. First edition thus. An advance reading copy of a Penguin Paperback Original. Published in the U.S. for the first time. First published in 1980, it was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction. This book is the work of an Old Testament prophet who sees no escape from the rain of fire even for those who warn...

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 156pp. Pictorial soft cover with title and title on spine. "J.M.Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve-center of being. what he finds there is more than most people will ever know about themselves, and he conveys it with a brittiant writer's mastery of tension and elegance" by Nadine Gordimer. First in Great Britian 1980. Inscribed "Addison - 1982 Finally the book to go with the poster. Happy Birthday Fondly John" Addison is Addison...

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Bulgarian edition. Two novels published together. Translated by Dzhon-Maikul Kutsi. Octavo. 371 [3] pp. Text in Bulgarian. Printed wrappers. German literary agent's rubberstamp on title page. Wrappers with moderate wear and the spine lightly sunned, upper corner gently bumped, about half of the signatures lightly and evenly toned, very good. Signed by Coetzee on the title page. An uncommon edition, featuring two of the Nobel laureate's classic novels.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Finnish edition. Translated by Seppo Lopenen. Octavo. 185pp. Text in Finnish. A little toning at the edges of the cheap paper, fine in near fine dust jacket with a little toning. Signed by Coetzee on the title page. *OCLC *lists two holdings of the Finnish edition. Presumably it is uncommon signed.

Octavo, card wrapper. First paperback. Signed and dated 1984 on the title page. Preceded by the Secker & Warburg (London) and the Ravana (Johannesburg) editions of 1980. In exceptional condition.

Softcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 156 pages. In Good minus condition. Orange spine. Covers have stains, mild wear along the extremities, mild bending wear along the front tail fore corner, and mild age toning along the spine. Texblock has pen mark on page 86, stains along the edges, and mild wear along the edges. Signed flat by J. M. Coetzee on title page. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. This is an "Advanced Reader's Copy" of "Waiting for the...

First British edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times, the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency. "I have known few authors who...

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Published by Secker & Warburg, 1980. First edition, first printing signed by the author on the title page. The book is tight, clean and unread, with a hint of a slant to the lower edge of the spine. Perhaps the rarest of all J M Coetzee's books to find. The dust jacket is faded, as is common, with an unobtrusive mark across the front. J M Coetzee was...

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee, Hardcover, First UK Edition (1980). Book in very good condition, in a good unclipped dust jacket. The book shows very minor ageing to the page edges. The dust jacket has considerable fading to the spine and front cover, and shows signs of ageing internally. It has a very slight nick to the top of the back panel. (See pictures). The author is...

First South African edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "Charles Barry with very best wishes J.M. Coetzee 23/4/81." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some toning to the spine, bookplate of the recipient. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times, the Magistrate is...

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition. Publisher's black boards with gilt spine lettering. Small spot of foxing to the top of the title page and opposite which fades away gradually over the 4/5 subsequent pages. No other issues of note. All-in-All the book is in excellent fine condition with no inscriptions. The price-clipped D/W is also a fine example and is in stunning un-faded condition. Exceedingly uncommon in this condition. Photographs/scans available upon...

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. Publisher's black boards with gilt spine lettering. A neat name and contemporary date on the title page and the merest hint of foxing to the page block edges otherwise a very nearly fine copy. The very fine price-clipped D/W is the finest example that I have ever seen and is in stunning un-faded condition. Exceedingly uncommon in this condition....

First edition of this collection of essays regarding the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic Waiting For the Barbarians. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Association copy, inscribed by the author, "To J.M. Coetzee with much admiration for his imaginative powers. Jean-Pierre Durix 25 October 1999." In fine condition. From the library of J.M. Coetzee. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote...

First British edition, preceding the South African first of this modern classic by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket without the usual sunning to the spine with a small closed tear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional example. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through...