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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First trade paper edition, first printing of this stand-alone novel. In fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 231 pages. Published in 2007. The author's eleventh novel. One of the greatest novels of our time. Deluxe Leatherbound And Slipcased Edition of 100 numbered and signed copies. Except for the Australian, the Deluxe Edition precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. The Deluxe Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Harvill Secker Press: Regular-sized volume format. Blue goatskin leather binding with gilt titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by J. M. Coetzee. Marbled endpapers. Maroon cloth slipcase. Printed on archival stock paper in the United Kingdom to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its ultimate collectible format, J. M. Coetzee's "Diary of A Bad Year". Addresses the profound unease of countless people in modern democracies. "An eminent, seventy-two-year-old Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled 'Strong Opinions'. It is a chance to air some urgent concerns. He writes short essays on the origins of the state, on Machiavelli, on anarchism, on Al-Qaida, on Intelligent Design, on music. What, he asks, is the origin of the state and the nature of the relationship between citizen and state? How should the citizen of a modern democracy react to the state's willingness to set aside moral considerations and civil liberties in its War on Terror? How does the state handle outsiders? In the laundry-room of his apartment block, he encounters an alluring young woman. When he discovers she is between jobs, he claims failing eyesight and offers her work typing up his manuscript. Anya has no interest in politics, but the job provides a distraction, as does the writer's evident and not unwelcome attraction toward her. An utterly contemporary work of fiction from one of our greatest writers and deepest thinkers" (Publisher's blurb). Unlike most contemporary writers, J. M. Coetzee has been an "engaged" writer from the beginning, during his anti-Apartheid days in South Africa. He has also always offered the greatest aesthetic pleasure, in prose of the highest literary quality and in his profoundly speculative, anti-didactic, anti-dogmatic, and anti-propagandistic reflections on the major issues of our time. The novel's title is an allusion to Coetzee's idol, Daniel Defoe ("Journal of The Plague Year") while being at the same time, a novel of ideas in the grand tradition of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Kafka. An absolute "must-have" title for J. M. Coetzee collectors. This is a copy of the Deluxe Leatherbound And Slipcased Edition, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page (Number 49). It is very prominently and beautifully numbered and signed in black ink-pen by J. M. Coetzee. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the Deluxe Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Lannan Award in 1998, the Jerusalem Prize in 1999, the Booker Prize in 1983 for "The Life & Times of Michael K" and in 1999 for "Disgrace", the first writer to win the most prestigious British literary award twice. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER J. M. COETZEE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1846551668. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Neu. Dust Jacket Condition: Neu. 1. Auflage. 1. The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts. London: Secker & Warburg, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Apart from the usual browning of the paper, a fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Signed and dated "1990" by the author on the title page. 2. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord. London: Secker & Warburg, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Apart from some slight browning of the paper, a fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. 3. The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. London: Secker & Warburg, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Apart from some slight browning of the paper, a fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Signed and dated "1992" by the author on the title page. 4. "The Brass Bar" in: Granta 43 - Best of Young British Novelists 2. London: Granta Publications Ltd., 1993. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in original printed wrappers. 5. Labels. London: One Horse Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. No. 1127 of 2000 copies signed, dated and numbered by the author. A fine copy in original wrappers and with the original wrap-around still intact. 6. Captain Corelli's Mandolin. London: Secker & Warburg, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Apart from some very slight browning of the paper, a fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Signed and dated "1994" by the author on the title page. 7. "Feathers in our Knickers" in: Does the Sun Rise over Dagenham? London: Fourth Estate, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in original wrappers. 8. The Book of Job with an Introduction by Louis de Bernières. Edinburgh: Canongate, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in original printed wrappers. Signed by de Bernières on the title page. 9. A Day out for Mehmet Erbil. London: Belmont Press, 1999. A fine copy in a fine slipcase of the de luxe edition of 26 lettered copies - this is copy "P" - bound with a leather spine and with two extra prints signed by the illustrator Eileen Hogan laid in at the back of the book, which has been signed by both author and illustrator. 10. Red Dog. London: Secker & Warburg, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. No. 45 of the limited edition of 100 copies signed by the author, specially bound in calfskin and housed in a cloth slipcase. Both book and slipcase in fine condition. 11. Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World - A Play for Voices. London: Vintage, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in original printed wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page. 12. Günter Weber's Confession. London: Tartarus Press, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. No. 82 of an edition of 100 copies signed and numbered by the author and printed on Zerkall paper. 13. Birds Without Wings. London: Secker & Warbu1g, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. No. 86 of 100 copies signed by the author, specially bound in leather and housed in a green cloth slipcase. Both book and slipcase in fine condition. 14. Birds Without Wings. London: Secker & Warburg, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. No. 189 of 1'000 copies signed by the author, specially bound and housed in a red cloth slipcase. Both book and slipcase in fine condition. 15. Birds Without Wings. London: Secker & Warburg, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the title page. This item comes with a plethora of promotional items for the book such as samplers, postcards, posters, an entry card for a competition to win a holiday in Turkey, a stand-up display, and a T-shirt - all in fine, respectively unworn condition. 16. A Partisan's Daughter. London: Harvill Secker, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. No. 5 of 100 copies of the Blackwell Collector's Library signed by the author, specially bound and housed in a cloth slipcase. Both book and slipcase in fine condition. Please note that due to size and weight we will have to charge additional postage. Signatur des Verfassers.