The Story of an African Farm

by Olive Schreiner, as Ralph Iron

$5,800 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: Chapman and Hall, 1883. First edition, first printing of what is widely recognized as one of the first feminist novels. Near Fine with light rubbing to binding, pages toned and with occasional instances of light spotting. Finely bound in full black ostrich skin by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, mirroring the book's setting on an ostrich farm. At the time of publication, the South African ostrich farming industry was rapidly

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