New York: Random House, 1980. First edition. First printing. Full black

New York: Random House, 1980. First edition. First printing. Full black cloth, with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on front jacket flap ($10.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 245 pages. The second novel in Doris Lessing's visionary "Canopus in Argos: Archives" series, a cycle blending myth, science fiction, and political allegory to explore human evolution and cosmic civilization. Doris Lessing (1919-2013) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. The "Canopus in Argos: Archives" series consists of: "Shikasta" (1979); "The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five" (1980); "The Sirian Experiments" (1981); "The Making of the Representative for Planet 8" (1982); and "The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire" (1983).