Cape Town: C. Struik, 1973. First edition. [15]pp, followed by 56 b&w plates. 4to. Gray cloth boards, gilt spine titles. A few spots of soiling to textblock top, offsetting to endpapers. Very good or better in a very good jacket showing moderate edgewear, principally at spine ends and tips. Signed and dated ("31/3/08") to title page.
Goldblatt's first book, an examination of South African gold mine(r)s, and their role in the larger social structure of apartheid South Africa. With an essay by South African novelist and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014).
