Johannesburg: AD. Donker, 1982. First edition. 144pp. 8vo. Blue textured-paper boards; white spine titles; dust jacket. Light shelfwear/rubbing to spine ends and board tips; one spot of ink soiling at base of textblock fore-edge. Very good in a like jacket with mild sunning to spine and panel perimeters. Edited and introduced by Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane.
First edition of this selection of verse from the early books of South African poet and apartheid activist Mongane Wally Serote (b. 1944), published while he was living in exile. Serote returned to South Africa in 1990 after the ban was lifted on the anti-apartheid African National Congress, of which he was a member. In 2018, he was announced as the National Poet Laureate of South Africa.
