{"product_id":"unto-dust-herman-charles-bosman-1974","title":"Unto Dust by Herman Charles Bosman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnto Dust (Fifth Edition in Original Dust Jacket)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHerman Charles Bosman's Oom Schalk Lourens Stories of the Western Transvaal, Edited by Lionel Abrahams\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 Unto Dust\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Herman Charles Bosman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEditor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lionel Abrahams\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Human \u0026amp; Rousseau, Cape Town and Pretoria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1974\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0798104910\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition Details:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fifth Edition, 1974. Edited by Lionel Abrahams, with a foreword by William Plomer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Publisher's brown cloth boards with a printed mustard and black dust jacket.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePhysical Format:\u003c\/strong\u003e Standard small octavo (8vo).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\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 (VG)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExterior \/ Boards:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brown cloth boards, clean, with slight bumping at the top fore-corner. The spine shows light edge wear and rubbing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterior:\u003c\/strong\u003e The pages are cream and clean, with no markings. The text block is tight. Slight toning or dust along the top edge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dust Jacket:\u003c\/strong\u003e Present, in a mustard and black design. The spine shows chipping and loss of colour along the edges, with a light patch near the foot and small nicks at the head and tail. A thin diagonal scratch or crease crosses the author's name on the front panel. The edges are rubbed, with white showing on the front and back. The lower fore-edge of the flap is chipped and torn, with a piece missing from the front flap. The jacket carries a quotation from William Plomer praising Bosman's playful, sly Afrikaner irony. It will be supplied 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\u003eUnto Dust gathers twenty-four short stories by Herman Charles Bosman, told in the voice of the storyteller Oom Schalk Lourens and set in the western Transvaal after the Second Anglo-Boer War. Through his narrator's sly, rambling tales, Bosman captures the contradictions of life in rural South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection was edited by Lionel Abrahams, with a foreword by William Plomer, and forms part of the uniform edition of Bosman's works. The first edition appeared in 1963. This is the fifth edition, published in Cape Town in 1974 by Human \u0026amp; Rousseau. Roy Campbell praised the stories as among the best South African short stories ever published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor collectors of Africana literature and of Bosman, this is a handsome, jacketed copy of one of the key collections of the Groot Marico tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Profile: Herman Charles Bosman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHerman Charles Bosman (1905-1951) is widely regarded as South Africa's greatest short-story writer. Born at Kuils River near Cape Town to an Afrikaner family, he was raised speaking English as well as Afrikaans. After graduating he taught in the Groot Marico, and his stories of that region remain his best-known work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1926 he shot and killed his stepbrother; his death sentence was commuted to ten years, of which he served about four. He drew on those years for Cold Stone Jug (1949). From 1948 until his death he worked as a proof editor at The Sunday Express. 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