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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by P.R. Macmillan, 1958. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear and price-clipped.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (vi) + 39. Dustwrapper somewhat tanned and edgeworn; spine extremities sunned; some foxing to endpapers. Good condition. A series of essays divided into two sections, the first being on American authors and literature, and the second on South African literature. The American section has essays on such different writers as William Faulkner and Mickey Spillane, while the South African section includes an essay on Nadine Gordimer - surely one of the earliest spotlights on her promise. "It is inevitable that America and South Africa, being comparatively young and pioneering countries, lacking the culture and tradition of Europe, should have much in common. . The following pages are intended as a guide for the general reader to the salient features of both literatures, as well as to the works of certain American authors.".