NADINE GORDIMER. — Face to Face. Short Stories.

Silver Leaf Books, Johannesburg, 1st Edition, First edition (first printing) of the future Nobel Laureate's first book. 8vo. 164pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in silver at the spine. Backstrip ends rubbed and with several tiny areas of chafing and slight discolouration to the cloth where the dust wrapper is defective. Endpapers browned and a little spotted, with just a trace of further spotting to the edges and to the title page. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, somewhat rubbed, creased and edgeworn with some internal repair, some loss to the spine panel ends, two small areas of enclosed loss and several further fractions of loss to the corner tips. A three-page unaccredited foreword precedes sixteen short stories., Very Good, Fair