Three first editions, two signed

Lot 232
28.01.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1360945
Lot 232 | Three first editions, two signed
Estimate value
$ 800 – 1 200
COETZEE, John Maxwell (b.1940). Life & Times of Michael K. London: Secker & Warburg, 1983. – His Man and He. Nobel Lectures December 7, 2003. London: Reese & O'Neill, 2004. – Disgrace. London: Secker & Warburg, 1999.

The first edition, first printing, of Disgrace, signed and dated by Coetzee on the night he won his second Booker prize: "J.M. Coetzee / 25 Oct 1999." Together with the first edition of his Nobel Prize address His Man and He, one of 87 copies printed, signed by the author, and a first edition of Life & Times of Michael K. All very fine.

Three volumes, octavo. Original cloth stamped in gilt; two with pictorial dust-jackets, as issued.
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