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Briefing for a Descent into Hell
by Lessing, Doris
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0394421981
- ISBN 13
- 9780394421988
- Seller
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Newark, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. 8vo. [10], 308, [2] pp. Bound in natural cloth, deckle edge, top edge stained blue, title and decoration stamped in gilt on cover and spine, in black dust jacket printed in red, yellow, blue, and white. Date on title page and First Edition stated on copyright page. Near Fine, minor wear to extremities, in Very Good dust jacket with vertical creases to front and rear flaps, minor rubbing to extremities.
Synopsis
Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the author of more than thirty books—novels, stories, reportage, poems, and plays. In 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Garnet Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002617
- Title
- Briefing for a Descent into Hell
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394421981
- ISBN 13
- 9780394421988
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
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