COETZEE, J. M. ~ Disgrace. Double signed by the author.

FIRST UK PRINTING. Secker & Warburg, London: 1999.

8vo., black publisher's boards lettered in gilt to spine with title deliberately crossed through in gold; together in the unclipped photographic dustwrapper (£14.99) featuring an image by Lucy Harmer; burgundy endpapers; THE BOOK essentially fine, just very mild bruising to spine tips; THE WRAPPER fine. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First edition, with full number line 1-10. The correct first issue, printed by Biddles Ltd. This copy double signed by the author to a tipped-in bookplate and directly to the title page. The Booker and Nobel Prize-winning novel. A deeply questioning and uncomfortable novel, 'Disgrace' tells the story of David Lurie, a middle-aged and divorced scholar who retreats to his daughter's smallholding after an affair with a younger student. Set against the backdrop of post-Apartheid South Africa, the book explores complex political, racial, and personal issues, and was described by one Guardian article as "intensely human, rooted in common experience and replete with failure, doubt and frustration." 'Disgrace' was the second work for which the author was awarded the Booker Prize. The first was in 1983, with 'Life & Times of Michael K'. Until 2001, when Peter Carey won his second Booker Prize for 'True History of the Kelly Gang', Coetzee was the only author to have been awarded the prestigious prize twice. "The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing." A fine copy.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Fine
JACKET: Fine