New York, Random House, 1990 (first US edition).
Octavo, [viii], 199 pages.
Quarter cloth and papered boards lightly sunned at the top and bottom edges; a near-fine copy with the fine dustwrapper.
Signed by the author on the title page 'J.
M.
Coetzee 1990'.
J.
M.
Coetzee is the first author to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.