Coetzee, J. M. ~ Disgrace : Signed By The Author

First USA Printing : Viking, New York : 1999

The First USA printing published by Viking, New York in 1999. 8vo., white cloth-backed white boards, spine lettered in metallic blue; in the matching white and blue wrapper (unclipped, priced $23.95 to front flap), designed by Martin Ogolter. The BOOK mildly bumped at spine ends, else near Fine; The WRAPPER also Fine, with circular gold Booker Prize Winner sticker to the front panel. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First US edition, first printing, stated, with full number line 1-10. This copy signed (without dedication) by the author in blue ink to the title page. A copy of the ticket for the signing event is loosely laid in for provenance. The Booker Prize winning novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author. A deeply questioning and uncomfortable novel, 'Disgrace' tells the story of David Lurie, a middle-aged and divorced scholar who retreats to his daughter's smallholding after an affair with a younger student. Set against the backdrop of post-Apartheid South Africa, the book explores complex political, racial, and personal issues, and was described by one Guardian article as 'intensely human, rooted in common experience and replete with failure, doubt and frustration.''Disgrace' was the second work for which the author was awarded the Booker Prize. The first was in 1983, with 'Life & Times of Michael K'. Until 2001, when Peter Carey won his second Booker Prize for the 'True History of the Kelly Gang', Coetzee was the only author to have been awarded the prestigious prize twice. "The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing." A fine copy.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Fine