[Item #4688] From the Heart of the Country with: Ephemera. J. M. Coetzee.
From the Heart of the Country with: Ephemera
From the Heart of the Country with: Ephemera
From the Heart of the Country with: Ephemera
From the Heart of the Country with: Ephemera

From the Heart of the Country with: Ephemera

ISBN: 006010841X
New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1977. First American Edition. Hardcover. "When a lonely South African sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of his black foreman's young bride, his transgression brings to an end an uneasy feudal peace. His embittered spinster daughter, Magda, dreams of and executes a bloody revenge, then shuts the farm off from the world to play out with the foreman and his wife her sexual fantasies and final degradation. Or does she? Where in this journal of her days is the dividing line between fact and the workings of Magda's excited imagination?" (from front & back flaps) The second novel by J(ohn) M(axwell) Coetzee, the great Nobel & Booker Prize-winning South African-born (now Australian) author. In this haunting work, Coetzee employs the proverbial "unreliable narrator" to evoke the twisted horrors of the apartheid-era South African hierarchical society. Hardcover in unclipped first-issue dust jacket (with $7.95 price, "0877" printed on front flap), "First U.S. Edition" as stated on copyright page (preceded by a British edition with a slightly different title), first printing as indicated by number sequence thereon. We found, between pages 84-85, & have retained an interesting piece of ephemera: The original, very enthusiastic review of Coetzee's novel Age of Iron (1990) by Lawrence Thornton in the New York Times Books Review, one leaf (pgs. 7-8) neatly cut from an issue of unknown date, folded once horizontally & twice vertically to form six panels/ twelve sides. The folded leaf is placed inside a blank envelope with the author's name written on recto, open at upper & right edges. A classic Coetzee collectible in its original (American) form, with enriching ephemera. Book in very fine condition with only a bit of wear to thin edges & corners of front, back covers & spine; sparse spotting & scratching to upper & lower edges of text block. Interior very fine with only small areas of light loss of surface at blank brown front endpaper near upper right corner (perhaps from erasure or sticker removal); otherwise substantially mint. Ephemera very fine, folded & enveloped as noted above with only slight browning. Very Fine / Very Fine. [Item #4688]

Price: $60.00