The Soft Voice of the Serpent

Nadine Gordimer

First UK edition. Victor Gollancz, London, 1953. Hardcover, 243 pp. Blue cloth has some light stains. Binging leaned. Ownership signature in blue ink and dated 1954. Loss on the dust jacket in the middle of the spine (two half a centimetre holes) and chipped at top and bottom of spine and on corners. All around tanning. Gordimer's first short story collection to be published outside of South Africa, which gained her high praise at a very young age. As per the dust jacket, "To say of Miss Gordimer that for one so young she reveals remarkable maturity in her work is to patronize it: her present achievement would be remarkable at any age".