Belydenis in die Skemering by Elizabeth Eybers (1st Edition)

Author: Eybers, Elizabeth
Title: Belydenis in die Skemering
Publisher: Nasionale Pers Beperk
Date: 1936
Place: Bloemfontein, Kaapstad en Pretoria
Dimensions: 8vo, 20.5cm x 14cm

57pp.
1st edition.

Brown cloth boards, black titles to top board and spine. Two, neat ownership inscriptions to front paste down. Foxing throughout, especially to early and later leaves.

Elizabeth Eybers (1915-2007) was an influential and important Afrikaans poet. She was the first woman to win a Hertzog prize in 1943 for her collections Die Stil Avontuur and the current Belydenis in die Skemering - she won the prize again in 1971 for Onderdak.

Regarded as the first volume of poetry to be published in Afrikaans by a woman, only preceded by Sarah Goldblatt who published a collection of children's poems in 1920.

Rare. Only a handful of copies in libraries worldwide. None in the auction record.