Path Thunder by Peter Abrahams, First Edition (11 results)

paperback. Condition: As New. 2nd printing. 5 x 7 1/4", 262 pages. A novel tells of a love story which tragically challenges the coulur bar.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition, authors first novel, 278(1)pp. bound in blue cloth,spine lettering silver, in edgeworn dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dark blue cloth, silver titles. Few marks on back board. Inter-racial love story in South Africa.

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. First edition (stated). Cloth, dj. Very good overall in a dj. with substantial edgewear (some loss to both bottom and top edges)/ Still quite presentable.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Soiling at the foredge margin of first few leaves, splash marks on front board and spine, rubbing at board edges, very good, lacking the dust jacket. An interracial love story, the first novel to be published in the U.S. by this black South-African author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very minor chip in dust jacket sale.

Condition: Good. 1952. First British Edition. 262 pages. Illustrated jacket (priced 12s 6d net) over orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Slight gutter cracking. Binding is firm. Endpapers have subtle strips of tanning caused by jacket. Previous owner's inscription in pen to front endpaper. Text block edges are a little tanned and foxed with minor scratches and droplet marks. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall; notable small dark marks to rear. Spine is noticeably sunned to ends. Gilt is dulled. Book has a moderate forward lean. Unclipped jacket has some edgewear. Slight chips, creases, rubbing. Top and bottom edges covered in adhesive tape, thus some staining; surface tear to front flap with loss of text. Small water stain to front panel & tape mark to rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition, (M-W). Bookstore stamp on front fly, foxing on page edges, tape offsetting on endpapers, else very good in a good only shortened dust jacket with topedge narrowly trimmed partially affecting the price on front flap corner, front flap bottom corner clipped. An interracial love story, the first novel to be published in the U.S. by this black South-African author.

Condition: Good. - Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in dark blue cloth titled in silver on the spine, in a printed light blue dust wrapper. The covers are bumped & lightly rubbed. The price-clipped dust jacket is rubbed & soiled, the edges are chipped with a short tear to top edge of rear panel. [vi], 278 & [1] pages. The front endpaper & the edges of the pages are darkened with a few pages very lightly creased. A previous owner's name & date are penned on the half-title. Good. First American edition.An important black South African novelist and journalist, Peter Abrahams (1919-2017) became a crew member on a ship as a stoker in 1939 hoping to get to England where he finally arrived in 1941 and where this book was written.The story of a romance between a young South African man of mixed race and a white girl. The author "was born in 1919 in the Negro slums of Johannesburg, South Africa. At the age of nine he went to work in a tinsmithy. He taught himself to read and write and during intervals between work went to school." [Quoted from the dust wrapper's blurb].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in slightly rubbed near fine dust jacket with a small tear on the spine. An interracial love story, the first novel to be published in the U.S. by this black South-African author. Scarce in this condition.

[iv] 278 [4] pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Fine in jacket with a few chips at edges and minor rubbing.