Re: colonised planets 5 - SHIKASTA - personal, psychological, historical documents relating to visit by JOHOR (George Sherban)
by LESSING, DORIS
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine copy.
- Seller
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Lucca, Italy
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. Jacket design: David Prout. Emissary (grade 9). 87th of the period of the last days. The debut volume in Lessing's 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. Science Fiction series in which the Nobel Prize-Winning (2007) author creates a fictional universe in order to metaphorically explore spiritual, cultural and social issues. Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler - born 1919) is a Zimbabwean-British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. 'Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta' (often shortened to Shikasta) is a 1979 science fiction novel by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing, and is the first book in her five-book 'Canopus in Argos' series. It was first published in the United States in October 1979 by Alfred A. Knopf, and in the United Kingdom in November 1979 by Jonathan Cape. Shikasta is also the name of the fictional planet featured in the novel. 364 + (1). . 1st UK edition. Hard bound with dustjacket. Fine copy.. 22cmx14cm.
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- Bookseller
- Festina Lente (IT)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027856
- Title
- Re: colonised planets 5 - SHIKASTA - personal, psychological, historical documents relating to visit by JOHOR (George Sherban)
- Author
- LESSING, DORIS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy.
- Edition
- 1st UK edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- canopus in argos
- Size
- 22cmx14cm
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