Briefing for a Descent into Hell
by Lessing, Doris
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine-/Fine- (Ex-Lib)
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Austin, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1971. Hardback. Near Fine-/Fine- (Ex-Lib). First U.S. hardback edition, an Ex-Library copy with all the usual flaws, otherwise NF-/F-, with light liquid staining to top stained edges of book which doesn't affect the pages themselves at all. Slipstream "inner space" novel of a man's fantastic journeys inside his own head, and of doctors' attempts to "cure" him. Modern Fantasy 100 list.
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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- Seller
- Lame Excuse Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- LP677
- Title
- Briefing for a Descent into Hell
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine-/Fine- (Ex-Lib)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Inc.
- Date Published
- 1971
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
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