Ernest Cole - House of Bondage - First Edition

COLE, Ernest (1940-1990), [LELYVELD, Joseph, introduction, FLAHERTY, Thomas, text].

House of Bondage. A South African Black Man Exposes in His Own Pictures and Words the Bitter Life of His Homeland Today.

London: A Ridge Press Book, Allen Land The Penguin Press, 1968.

FIRST UK EDITION, first printing. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.192. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine, photographic endpapers. Dust-jacket with printed price of 63/- to front flap.

Neat ownership to flyleaf, booksellers ticket to reverse of the same, edges toned. Dust-jacket lightly handled, a little sunned to spine. Near fine.

A striking photo essay showing the realities of life in South Africa under apartheid.