J. M. Coetzee — Disgrace
London, Secker and Warburg, 1999. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first edition copy of this novel by J. M. Coetzee, the Booker Prize winner in 1999. The first edition, first impression of this work. Complete with the original pictorial dust wrapper designed by Lucy Harmer, second state with "winner of The Booker Prize 1999" to front wrap. Telling the story of David Lurie, poetry professor at the Technical University of Cape town, who has an affair with a student and falls into disgrace, leading him to resign and retreat to an isolated smallholding owned by his daughter. A chilling masterpiece by J. M. Coetzee.  In the original publisher's black cloth binding. Externally, excellent with minor shelf wear only. Dust wrapper lovely and unclipped, with minor shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.
