retro/collectable: “THE GLASS BARRIER” by JOY PACKER 1961 Early Edition

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retro/collectable: “THE GLASS BARRIER” by JOY PACKER 1961 Early Edition. This is a Book Club edition( though it seems to be selling as a first edition on many sites)

Absolutely fabulous read about 50s and 60s in Sth Africa and relationships between people, changing relationships and Tensions.

Written by Lady Joy Packer who attended an inquiry into the ‘Langa Riots’of the period. Although fiction .... lots of very dramatic tensions reported in this book.

Condition is good. Dust Jacket is reasonably good with a few tears to bottom and a few shelving marks. Light blue boards have some sunning marks to front and back boards..but the spine is in very good condition. Foxing to early text block and last few pages and the edges of pages but other pages relatively clear.

An amazing collectable and very early edition.

Will send Australian Standard Post with Tracking

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Joy Packer

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Joy Petersen Packer (12 February 1905 – 7 September 1977[1]) was a South African author of autobiography and romantic adventure novels.



Contents

1 Biography

2 Works

2.1 Novels

2.2 Memoirs

3 References

3.1 Sources

4 External links

Biography[edit]



The National Archives pictures of Sir Herbert Packer and "Lady Packer" meeting the Swazi royal family of king Sobhuza II.

Packer was born and educated in Cape Town, graduating as a journalist from the University of Cape Town. She worked initially as a free-lance journalist, in 1931 becoming a reporter for London's Daily Express. After this, she spent time on radio in Hong Kong as well as a stint writing for British publications in the Balkans. World War II saw her as a broadcaster to South Africa for the BBC, then later working in the Ministry of Information in Egypt, as at Allied Headquarters in Italy. Her travelling was tied up with her marriage to a British admiral, Sir Herbert Packer. When her husband was knighted in the 1950 Honours list, Mrs. Joy Packer automatically became known as "Lady Packer", a courtesy title.


Works[edit]

Her first works of note were three volumes of memoirs published from 1945 to 1953 dealing with her travels throughout the world during the period before, during, and just after World War II with her husband. Places visited included Britain, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and China. In the early 1950s, she went on a substantial tour of Africa, which is included in her later published final three volumes of memoirs.


In the 1950s, she also began publishing novels, starting with Valley of the Vines in 1955, which sold more than 600,000 copies in English, and was translated into at least nine European languages. Although her novels' principal themes were romantic, several sources state them as also important for their sociopolitical commentary of South Africa at the time. Her second novel, Nor the Moon by Night was made into a British film of the same name. In America, it was released as Elephant Gun.


Novels[edit]

Valley of the Vines (1955)

The High Roof (1959)

Nor the Moon by Night'(1957)

The Glass Barrier (1961)

The Man in the Mews (1964)

The Blind Spot (1967)

Leopard in the Fold (1969)

Veronica (1970)

Boomerang (1972)

Dark Curtain (1977)

  • Condition: Good
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: The Book Club Edition
  • Subject: History- Relationships In Sth Africa
  • Modified Item: No
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Year Printed: 1961
  • Language: English
  • Illustrator: NO
  • Special Attributes: Early Edition/ Dust Jacket
  • Author: Joy Parker
  • Region: United Kingdom
  • Character Family: NA
  • Sub-Subject: Bi Racial Relationships

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