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Briefing for a Descent into Hell
by Lessing, Doris
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine Minus
- ISBN 10
- 0394421981
- ISBN 13
- 9780394421988
- Seller
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Templeton, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1971. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Tight spine, square boards and pointed tips, with pages laying tightly together as new. Dark top stain. Dust jacket IS price lipped and looks nice in a shiny mylar dust protector. Packaging suitable for wrapping..
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
- Winding Road Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002032
- Title
- Briefing for a Descent into Hell
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine Minus
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394421981
- ISBN 13
- 9780394421988
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Literary Fiction
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