1st edition 1st printing-slight wear to dust jacket-otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean-includes 2 promotional photographs of Lessing-reviewer copy-enjoy.

1st edition 1st printing-slight wear to dust jacket-otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean-includes 2 promotional photographs of Lessing-reviewer copy-enjoy.

First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Knopf, 1971.

First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Knopf, 1971. Octavo. Hardcover. Black topstain. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear and sticker partially removed on left flap.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

First Edition signed by author on title page; pages hardcover+ dust jacket; well bound, clean text no creases tears or marks

First Edition signed by author on title page; pages hardcover+ dust jacket; well bound, clean text no creases tears or marks

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 308 p. Audience: General/trade. Book has

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 308 p. Audience: General/trade. Book has some toning to the pageblock and slight shelfwear to the bottoms of the boards. The top of the pageblock is sprayed black. By the late Nobel Prize-, David Cohen Prize-, Somerset Maugham Award-, Prix Médicis étranger-, Shakespeare Prize-, WH Smith Literary Award-, Palermo Prize-, Premio Internazionale Mondello-, Grinzane Cavour Prize-, James Tait Black Memorial Prize-, Los Angeles Times Book Prize-, Catalonia International Prize-, Premio Príncipe de Asturias-, and S.T. Dupont Golden PEN Award-winning author of The Canopus in Argos: Archives series and the Children of Violence novels. Signed American editions are rare. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.