London: Secker & Warburg, (1999). First edition. Hardcover. Printed by Clays. Winner of the Booker Prize for 1999. Basis for the big screen film (2008) that was directed by Steve Jacobs and stars John Malkovic, Natalie Becker and Jessica Haines. The tale of a South African professor who loses everything... More about DISGRACE
Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Unproofed Copy (uncorrected proof). These essays and interviews, documenting Coetzee's longtime engagement with his own culture, and with modern culture in general, constitute a literary autobiography. 438pp with index. Bound in yellow printed perfect bound wrappers. An uncommon format. More about DOUBLING THE POINT. Essays and Interviews. Edited by Davie Attwell
London: Harvill Secker, (2007). First Edition. Hardcover. Essays on writers include; Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schultz, Sandor Marai, Robert Musil, Robert Walser, Walter Benjamin, Gunter Grass, W. G. Sebald, the poet Paul Celan, as well as an essay on Graham Greene's Brighton Rock and on the short fiction of... More about INNER WORKINGS. Essays 2000-2005. With an Introduction by Derek Attridge
Johannesburg: Ravan Press, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Booker Prize. Printed and bound in the UK for Ravan Press. In a South Africa whose civil administration is collapsing under the pressure of years of civil strife, an obscure young gardener named Michael K decides to take his mother... More about LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K
New York: Viking Penguin, (2001). First U. S. edition. Hardcover. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-six pieces on books and writing. His subjects range from great eighteenth, and nineteenth century writers Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Ivan Turgenev to the the great German modernists... More about STRANGER SHORES. Literary Essays. 1986-1999
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Small 4to. Uncorrected Page Proofs. TLS, dated Sept 8, 1987, laid in from a publicist at the press submitting this proof for book club orders (to Reader's Subscription), she states: "We will have finished books in February and plan to publish... More about WHITE WRITING: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, (2004). First edition. Hardcover. Though the Netherlands has been the site of vigorous literary activity since at least the Beweging van Vijftig (Movement of the Fifties) poets, the status of Dutch as a "minor" language spoken by only fifteen million people has kept its... More about LANDSCAPE WITH ROWERS. Poetry From The Netherlands
New York: Viking Press, 1999. First American edition. Hardcover. The winner of the 1999 Booker Prize is a bleak tale of human and animal misery in post-apartheid South Africa. More about DISGRACE
New York: Penguin, 1982. First edition thus. Paperback. An advance reading copy of a Penguin Paperback Original. Published in the U.S. for the first time. First published in 1980, it was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black... More about WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS. A Novel
