BRAND NEW. This has been on the shelf in our bookstore. Minor shelf wear one edges of dust jacket from storage - nothing major. Buy with confidence because every order ships with delivery confirmation tracking number. Fast shipping from our non-smoking home. 2010AMA235 Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: "Chronicles of Darkness" examines images of Africa through the eyes of white writers. The authors discussed range from Joseph Conrad and Olive Schreiner to more recent writers like Nadine Gordimer, Andre Brink and J. M. Coetzee. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of twentieth-century fiction and African literature.