{"product_id":"lem-haasbroek-1993-signed-first-edition","title":"Lem by P. J. Haasbroek","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLem (Signed \u0026amp; Inscribed First Edition in Dust Jacket)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Violent Near-Future Afrikaans Novel of a Generals' Coup, Signed by the Author in July 1993\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBibliographic Specifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e P. J. Haasbroek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Human \u0026amp; Rousseau, Kaapstad Johannesburg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1993\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780798130950\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0798130954\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition Details:\u003c\/strong\u003e First Edition (Eerste uitgawe). Title page signed by the author and dated Jul. 1993, with a further handwritten inscription on the front free endpaper.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Publisher's green cloth boards with a printed, illustrated dust jacket. Cover illustration by Bertie du Plessis.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePhysical Format:\u003c\/strong\u003e Octavo-sized hardcover novel. No maps or plates.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e Afrikaans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOfficial Condition Report\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Book:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very Good Plus (VG+)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExterior \/ Boards:\u003c\/strong\u003e The green cloth boards are solid and show several small white, paint-like or spotted marks near the top of the front board. No obvious fraying is visible to the corners or edges.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterior:\u003c\/strong\u003e The text block is clean and tight, with cream paper and some gentle yellowing to the page edges. The endpapers are clean and no foxing is visible.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/strong\u003e Title page signed by the author with a large signature dated 'Jul. 1993'. A further handwritten inscription on the front free endpaper reads: \"My beste wense aan jou, Nico Mater! Piet\".\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dust Jacket:\u003c\/strong\u003e Present. The illustrated jacket, with green spine and yellow lettering, is bright and clean across the front, spine and back, with minor edge wear at the head of the spine. The flap carrying the author's photograph and biography is intact. Protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSynopsis \u0026amp; Historical Value\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Human \u0026amp; Rousseau in 1993, Lem is P. J. Haasbroek's first full-length novel, following his short stories and youth fiction. It is set in a near-future South Africa in which a group of white generals stage a coup. The title points both to violence and cruelty and to resilience and defence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe jacket text opens on a man waiting tensely in the dark, alert like a predator, moving along the main road towards Mtunzini while expecting danger and violence. The tropical Natal setting and the uncompromising treatment of violence and sexuality link the novel to Haasbroek's earlier prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaasbroek has said he wrote the book as a reaction to the military establishment after the death of his son in a parachute accident. This signed first edition, in its original dust jacket, will interest collectors of Afrikaans literature and of South African fiction from the final years of apartheid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Profile: P. J. Haasbroek\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePieter Jacobus Haasbroek was born in Pretoria on 30 June 1943. He joined the University of Pretoria as a senior lecturer in 1976, completed his doctorate there in 1984 and became a full professor of economics in January 1985.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is known chiefly for his short stories, first published in Standpunte and later in Donga and Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, and is regarded as a leading exponent of violence in Afrikaans prose and a forerunner of the grensverhaal. Lem was his first full-length novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLem P. J. Haasbroek · signed Haasbroek first edition · Afrikaans novel 1993 Human \u0026amp; Rousseau · Afrikaans military coup novel · signed Afrikaans literature · P. J. 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