Kantelson by Ingrid Jonker (1st Edition)

Author: Jonker, Ingrid 
Title: Kantelson 
Publisher: Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel 
Date: 1966 
Place: Johannesburg 
Dimensions: 4to. 24.5cm x 14cm 

v+47pp+ii. 
1st edition.

Cloth boards, black titles to top board and spine. The poet’s third collection, published posthumously after her suicide by drowning at Three Anchor Bay on 19 July 1965.  A very good copy in a very good jacket, the jacket with a 1cm closed tear to the top panel, 0.5cm closed tear to back panel, minor chips to head of spine and head of back flap. Some browning to endpapers and top edge.