Simon & Schuster, 1986 cover
Cover of the Simon & Schuster, 1986 edition of this book. The Bodley Head 1987 jacket has not been photographed yet.
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The book first appeared in New York from Macmillan in 1986 under the subtitle The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa. The first British edition is the Bodley Head hardback, London 1987, retitled with the subtitle Growing out of Apartheid; the library record carries a 1986 copyright date, notes the original Macmillan publication and lists illustrations and an index. An uncorrected proof in stiff paper wrappers (354 pages) was issued by The Bodley Head before publication; it precedes the published book but is not the first edition itself. Pan Books issued a paperback in London in 1987 (ISBN 9780330297097, xii, 354 pages, 20 cm), also subtitled Growing out of Apartheid. A Macmillan imprint marks an American copy.
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Bodley Head, London, in 1987, in hardback.
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