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A Small Personal Voice
by Lessing, Doris
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 171pp. Octavo [22 cm] Olive green cloth over boards. Publisher's bright red topstain. With a remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text block, and bumping to the spine ends and corners. The price-clipped dust jacket is a bit toned, and lightly soiled and creased. Essays, Reviews, Interviews. Edited and introduced by Paul Schlueter. The author has signed the half title page. Lessing writes, "With my best wishes, Doris Lessing, 17.7.80, 24 Gada Garden, Lade (?)" Doris Lessing has also signed and dated a laid in postcard.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48506
- Title
- A Small Personal Voice
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- patcat; Doris Lessing; PASADENA 2017
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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
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Soiled
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- Title Page
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- Octavo
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- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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