One of only 87 copies issued

Coetzee, J. M. ~ His Man and He : Nobel Lecture December 7, 2003 : Limited Signed Edition

Rees & O'Neill, London : 2004

The sole UK printing published by Rees & O'Neill, London in 2004. 8vo., rust red cloth lettered with author's initials in gilt to upper board; backstrip lettered in gilt; peach coloured endpapers; lower edge untrimmed; The BOOK is in Fine condition. The wrapper is protected in a removable Mylar cover. Limited edition, one of just 75 numbered copies bound in cloth, from a total edition of 87 copies (there were 12 copies bound in full leather). This is 'No. 66' and is signed by the author to the limitation page. The text is letterpress printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. A very scarce edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's lecture, given at the Swedish Academy, Stockholm on the 7th December 2003. Lasting half an hour, the South African writer began the talk by speaking of events which had occurred in the late 1940s, when as a young child he read, for the first time, 'The Strange and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe'. "Shipwrecked alone on a desert island" he said "Crusoe became a figure in my imagination". "Who was Daniel Defoe?" he continued, "was Daniel Defoe, perhaps, another name for Robinson Crusoe, an alias that he used when he returned to England from his Island, and put on a wig?" What followed was a complex story about the telling of stories, identity, and allegory within the process of writing, in which the character can affect the writer as much as the other way around. A handsome production.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Fine