The Summer Before the Dark
by LESSING, Doris
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0224008323
- ISBN 13
- 9780224008327
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0224008323 . A UK first edition of Doris Lessing's 1973 novel, centered around her middle-aged Kate Brown character. Kate's well-ordered life is upended when her husband must go abroad for his work and she must adapt to life without companionship. --- In textured grey paper-covered boards with spine titling in gilt; grey topstain. Dust jacket in faux cloth orange paper. --- An excellent copy: bright, tightly-bound and newish. Unclipped (£1.95 net) jacket with a small tear to top back edge, some minor chafing to edges; else in good shape and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall; 241 pages .
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
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86773
- Title
- The Summer Before the Dark
- Author
- LESSING, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224008323
- ISBN 13
- 9780224008327
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- 0224008323
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