Every Secret Thing; My Family, My Country
by Slovo, Gillian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0316639982
- ISBN 13
- 9780316639989
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Little, Brown and Company, London, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. VI, 282 pages, acknowledgements. Black coloured endpapers. Black coloured boards with gray titles to the backstrip. Light browning to the text block edges. Previous owner's name to the top edge of the title page. Photographic dustwrapper, showing the author's parents (colourised in a sepia toned photograph), against a white background with brown and black titles to the front panel and backstrip. On the rear dustwrapper panel is a reproduction of a newspaper showing the author and her two sisters as young children. Rubbing and creasing to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges. Black-and-white photograph of the author to the rear fold over panel. The autobiography the author who grew up in South Africa at the height of the apartheid system. Her parents were active against the regime -- her mother being a journalist and her father being a pivot of the South African Communist Party and the ANC military wing. It's a story of growing up where being a parent was secondary to political views and of fear. It is also the story of her parents relationship and its consequences and fallout. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; History -- South Africa; Politics & Government. ISBN: 0316639982. ISBN/EAN: 9780316639989. Inventory No: 0107951. . 9780316639989
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0107951
- Title
- Every Secret Thing; My Family, My Country
- Author
- Slovo, Gillian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316639982
- ISBN 13
- 9780316639989
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Gilian Slovo -- Biography, South Africa -- Apartheid -- History -- Politics Biography & Autobiography; History -- South Africa; Politics & Government. Unbranded ISBN: 0316639982 EAN: 9780316639989 Slovo, Gillian Every Secret Thing; My Fami
- Bookseller catalogs
- History -- South Africa;
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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