Shikasta: Re: Colonized Planet 5 - Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series)
by Lessing, Doris
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0224017675
- ISBN 13
- 9780224017671
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (often shortened to Shikasta) is a 1979 science fiction novel by Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing, as well as the name of a fictional planet in this novel. It is the first book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59955
- Title
- Shikasta: Re: Colonized Planet 5 - Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series)
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second printing
- ISBN 10
- 0224017675
- ISBN 13
- 9780224017671
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- SCIENCE FICTION; SCI-FI; BRITISH LITERATURE; 20TH CENTURY; SIGNED;
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