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Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (Canopus in Argos: Archives)
by Lessing, Doris
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good +/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0394529685
- ISBN 13
- 9780394529684
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/very good. SIGNED. 178pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Black cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and an embossed title on the front cover. The extremities are moderately bumped and rubbed, and the boards are splayed. In a dust jacket, with mild edge wear, and a thin 1/2" deep tear in the paper at the head of the jacket's spine. A science fiction novel, and the fifth book in Doris Lessing's cycle, Canopus in Argos: Archives. Signed by Doris Lessing, with the date "17th June 1984," on the second half title page.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50181
- Title
- Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (Canopus in Argos: Archives)
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394529685
- ISBN 13
- 9780394529684
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- patcat; signed; Doris Lessing; first edition; fancon
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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