In a Province
- 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- London: Hogarth Press, 1934
London: Hogarth Press, 1934. First edition, lower pastedown and jacket stamped Colonial Cloth Edition. 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in black. Near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with design by Anthony Butts. First edition, lower pastedown and jacket stamped Colonial Cloth Edition. 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First book by Laurens van der Post, who edited with William Plomer (whose debut novel Turbott Wolfe was also published by the Woolfs)
“Plomer and Campbell, with the help of a young Afrikaner journalist, Laurens van der Post, edited and wrote almost the entire contents of Voorslag during 1926. This, the first bilingual South African literary journal, attacked race prejudice as Turbott Wolfe had done, and produced the same angry reaction” (ODNB).
A choice copy with the dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket are stamped in ink Colonial Cloth Edition (Woolmer does not note such a variant).
SCARCE. Woolmer 353
“Plomer and Campbell, with the help of a young Afrikaner journalist, Laurens van der Post, edited and wrote almost the entire contents of Voorslag during 1926. This, the first bilingual South African literary journal, attacked race prejudice as Turbott Wolfe had done, and produced the same angry reaction” (ODNB).
A choice copy with the dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket are stamped in ink Colonial Cloth Edition (Woolmer does not note such a variant).
SCARCE. Woolmer 353