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Ruth First

South African communist journalist and scholar, editor of radical papers in Johannesburg, author of 117 Days (1965); she was killed by a parcel bomb from the apartheid state in Maputo in 1982.

Lived: 1925–1982
Also known as: Heloise Ruth First
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Sources: Wikipedia — Ruth First

Bibliography

First editions. A tick marks a work matched to a library catalogue record.

Year	Title	First published by	Records
1963	South West Africa	Penguin Books	Open Library
1965	One Hundred and Seventeen Days — An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African Ninety-Day Dentention Law	Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex	Open Library
1972	The South African Connection — Western Investment in Apartheid	Penguin Books, Harmondsworth	Open Library
1974	Libya — The Elusive Revolution	Penguin, Harmondsworth	Open Library
1980	Olive Schreiner	A. Deutsch, London	Open Library

Editions in the catalogue

Year	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Language
1965	JUgo-Zapadnaja Afrika✓ — Istoriko-publicističeskij očerk	Ruth First & E. D. Michajlov	Progress Publishers	Russian
1989	117 Days✓ Voices of Resistance	Ruth First	Monthly Review Press	English
1989	One Hundred Seventeen Days (Voices of Resistance)	Ruth First	Monthly Review Press	English
2026	Barrel of a Gun✓ — Political Power in Africa and the Coup D'etat	Ruth First & Christopher J. Lee	Verso Books	English