Down Second Avenue, First Edition (11 results)

Condition: GOOD. Paperback original - first printing. Growing Up in a South African Ghetto - The first US publication of this autobiography of a black South African "describing the struggle for human dignity in the quagmire of poverty, violence and apartheid" originally published in 1959. Includes a long introduction by the author. xxvi, 210 pp. Good only (some wear to covers, previous owner's name, usual toning to pages).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo, card covers, 210pp. First U.S. edition, paperback original, with review slip laid in. VG+: a clean and sound copy with light rubbing and soiling to the wrappers.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 210pp. Pictorial soft cover with title and title on spine. An autobiography, Growing up in a South African ghetto.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. Mass market paperback. 210pp. Rear wrapper lightly scuffed, near fine. Autobiography of growing up in South Africa.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Re-issue. Very good plus lacking the dust jacket.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. Near fine in wrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Interesting account of the Author's life in South Africa under apartheid. Red cloth cover with White lettering on spine. 8 3/4" long. 222 p.pages. From the library of Newlyn School Cornish Artist Alethea Garstin, her signature is on endpaper with another from Trenwith House, St. Ives. No other inscriptions. Near very good condition. Some wear to cloth at spine ends, interior oin very good, clean condition.

MPHAHLELE, Ezekiel. DOWN SECOND AVENUE: GROWING UP IN A SOUTH AFRICAN GHETTO. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. 12mo., printed wraps. First Edition. Signed presentation from Mphahlele on the title page: "For Sherman Zelinsky. with my warmest wishes & warm memories of our stimulating association, Ezekiel Mphahlele/ March 1973." Scarce to find a signed copy! Very Good (minor wear). $85.00.

Condition: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in white to spine. Dust-jacket. Fine; jacket with a few chips and creases, small patch of abrasion to upper panel, but overall VG+. Jacket artwork by Malcolm Hart. An autobiographical recounting of the author's first-hand experiences of apartheid in South Africa. Book.

FIRST EDITION. Half title. Orig. red cloth. White pictorial d.w., unclipped; sl. dusted, small closed tear to rear panel. Zell, Bundy, & Coulon, p.214. Down Second Avenue is his first full-length work, and tells of a childhood of unrelenting poverty and police brutality in Pretoria. Beautifully written and inspiring, it is no surprise that the apartheid regime banned it. Robert McDowell called it 'a brilliant contribution to what is a new genre of our intensely race-conscious century - the autobiography as a vehicle of protest'.

FIRST EDITION. Half title. Orig. red cloth. White pictorial d.w., unclipped; worn, torn, & spotted, good only. Inscribed by the author 'To Rosa In memory of undying love & friendship between us, found in exile, Zeke 1959'. Zell, Bundy, & Coulon, p.214. Ezekiel (later Es'kia) Mphahlele, 1919-2008, was a South African writer and teacher; prolific, peripatetic, and acclaimed, he was often referred to as the 'Dean of African Letters' but was banned from teaching for openly criticising the racist and regressive Bantu Education Act. Down Second Avenue is his first full-length work, and tells of a childhood of unrelenting poverty and police brutality in Pretoria. Beautifully written and inspiring, it is no surprise that the apartheid regime banned it. Robert McDowell called it 'a brilliant contribution to what is a new genre of our intensely race-conscious century - the autobiography as a vehicle of protest'.