The Summer Before the Dark
by Lessing, Doris
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/good
- ISBN 10
- 0394484282
- ISBN 13
- 9780394484280
- Seller
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Paris, France
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1973. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo. Hardcover. Good/good. black cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket, 273 pp, pre publication edition, foxing to fore edges, small tear to dj, spine cocked
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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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Details
- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 78627
- Title
- The Summer Before the Dark
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo
- ISBN 10
- 0394484282
- ISBN 13
- 9780394484280
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Spine
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