J. M. Coetzee — Disgrace

London, Secker and Warburg, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition copy of this novel by J. M. Coetzee, the Booker Prize winner in 1999. The first edition, first impression stated. With pictorial dustwrapper by Lucy Harmer, a later impression with "winner of The Booker Prize 1999" to front wrap. The story of David Lurie, poetry professor at the Technical University of Cape town, who has an affair with a student and falls into disgrace, leading him to resign and retreat to an isolated smallholding owned by his daughter. A chilling, uncompromising, and unforgettable masterpiece. With unclipped dustwrapper.  In the original publisher's black cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear and slight bumping to head of spine. Dustwrapper is lovely and unclipped, with minor shelfwear only and a small puncture mark to rear flyleaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.