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Lessing Doris
African Stories
New York: Simon and Schuster 1965. First American edition. Cloth. Faint bump to lower spine otherwise a near fine copy in a very good- dust jacket with rubbing edgewear and a few small abrasions but still quite intact and presentable. 636 pp. 8vo. "This book includes every story written by Doris Lessing about Africa: all of her first collection This Was The Old Chief's Country unavailable in America; the four long tales about Africa from Five also unavailable; the African stories from The Habit of Loving and A Man and Two Women; and four stories never before collected" from the front panel. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 17515
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Lessing Doris
ALFRED & EMILY
NY: HarperCollins 2008. First US edition first prnt. Originally published by Fourth Estate in the same year. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Black & white photographs. Spine ends lightly pushed; otherwise in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Lessing's combination of novella and memoir of her parents' lives affected by WW I. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HarperCollins Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 21411 ISBN : 0060834889 9780060834883
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Lessing Doris
Ben in the World
Harper Perennial 2001. Very Good. Lessing Doris. Ben in the World. New York NY: Harper Perennial 2001. 178pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to edges. Harper Perennial paperback books
Bookseller reference : ULESBEN00FP ISBN : 0060934654 9780060934651
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Lessing Doris
Ben in the World
HarperCollins 2000. Fine. Lessing Doris. Ben in the World. NY: HarperCollins 2000. 178pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine with light bumping to spine ends. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with light rubbing to extremities and bumping to edges. HarperCollins hardcover books
Bookseller reference : ULESBEN00MW ISBN : 0060196289 9780060196288
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Lessing Doris
BEN IN THE WORLD. A SEQUEL TO THE FIFTH CHILD
NY: HarperCollins 2000. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Sequel to Lessing's The Fifth Child. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HarperCollins Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 30924 ISBN : 0060196289 9780060196288
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Lessing Doris
Briefing For A Descent Into Hell
London: Jonathan Cape 1971. Prior owner signature and date on ffep. Top edge stained lavender other edges trimmed. Ever so slightly canted otherwise near fine. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Jonathan Cape Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WN3904 ISBN : 0224005073 9780224005074
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Lessing Doris
BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL
New York: Knopf 1971. Printed wrappers pad bound. Uncorrected page proofs of the first American edition. Wraps slightly used and soiled. Very good. Knopf paperback books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT19623
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Lessing Doris
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1971. 1st Edition. 308p. dj. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
Bookseller reference : 008462
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Lessing Doris
Canopus In Argos: Archives - Re: Colonised Planet 5 SHIKASTA Signed; Personal Psychological Historical Documents Relating to Visit by JOHOR George Sherban Emmissary Grade 9 87th of the Period of the Last Days
New York: Alfred Knopf 1979. First American edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Cloth 8vo in dustwrapper. 365 pp. First American Edition stated. The first book in Lessing's series Re: Colonized Planet 5. A handsome very good copy in price-intact dustwrapper. SIGNED by Lessing on the title page and quite uncommon thus. Alfred Knopf unknown books
Bookseller reference : 30305
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Lessing Doris
CANOPUS IN ARGOS: ARCHIVES THE MARRIAGES BETWEEN ZONES THREE FOUR AND FIVE AS NARRATED BY THE CHRONICLERS OF ZONE THREE
London: Jonathan Cape 1980. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. One corner sharply bumped light edge wear else very good. Jonathan Cape unknown books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT31031
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Lessing Doris
Canopus In Argos: Archives Re: Colonised Planet 5 Shikasta. Personal Psychological Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor George Sherban Emissary Grade 9 87th of the Period of the Last Days.
London: Jonathan Cape 1979. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 1st UK edition. Signed by Lessing on the title page. <br/><br/> Jonathan Cape hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 9027609
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Lessing Doris
Canopus In Argos: Archives; Documents Relating to The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1983. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/good. Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards spine stamped in gilt cover stamped in blind. Dust jacket is rubbed at the edges and extremities three closed tears at top and bottom edges. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 9021710 ISBN : 0394529685 9780394529684
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Lessing Doris
Canopus In Argos: Archives; The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1982. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards spine stamped in gilt cover stamped in blind. Dust jacket is rubbed at the edges and extremities. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 9021711 ISBN : 039451906x 9780394519067
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Lessing Doris
Children of Violence Signed; A Ripple from the Storm and Landlocked
New York: Simon & Schuster 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Stated first printing. First edition thus. Two early books in Lessing's Children of Violence series of novels in one book. Includes the complete texts of Martha Quest and A Proper Marriage. 544 pp. A clean very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Prior owner name on the front endpaper. SIGNED by the author and uncommon thus. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 24136
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Lessing Doris
Dans ma peau (Ancienne édition)
Bookseller reference : 37149VPSL
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Lessing Doris
Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire
NY: Knopf 1983. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. Very good hardback in a slightly darkened jacket. <br/><br/> Knopf hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 44388 ISBN : 0394529685 9780394529684
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Lessing Doris
DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENTAL AGENTS IN THE VOLYEN EMPIRE
London: Jonathan Cape 1983. Octavo boards. First British edition. Fifth book of the Canopus in Argos: Archives series. Anatomy of Wonder 1995 4-264. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 418. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A lovely copy printed price of £7.95 net present on front flap. #158570 Jonathan Cape unknown books
Bookseller reference : 158570 ISBN : 0224021303 9780224021302
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Lessing Doris
Documents Relating to The sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire
London: Jonathan Cape 1983. 178 1p. original blue cloth Canopus in Argos: Archives 5. Jonathan Cape unknown books
Bookseller reference : 005613 ISBN : 0224021303 9780224021302
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LESSING Doris
Five: Short Novels
London: Michael Joseph 1953. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 20.75cm; black cloth with titling and decorations stamped in silver and green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 89-352pp. Crown a bit pushed lower right corner of front board gently bumped moderate offsetting to endpapers with some scattered foxing to preliminary leaves and text edges; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 12s 6d net gently spine-sunned modestly shelfworn with several closed tears and attendant creases scattered foxing and a triangular chip to lower edge of rear panel; Very Good. Collection of five short novels set in her native continent: A Home for the Highland Cattle The Other Woman Eldorado The Antheap and Hunger. Michael Joseph unknown books
Bookseller reference : 51515
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Lessing Doris
Going Home
New York: Ballantine Books 1968. First American Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Published year's earlier in the UK the first American edition is this paperback original. Ballantine U7088. With drawings by Paul Hogarth. Paper browned as expected. Signed by the Nobel Prize winning author. <br/><br/> Ballantine Books paperback books
Bookseller reference : D16696
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Lessing Doris
IF THE OLD COULD. By "Jane Somers" pseud
New York: Knopf 1984. Cloth and boards. First U.S. edition of this pseudonymous novel inscribed and signed by Lessing in 1986. Fine in lightly used dust jacket with sticker mark on front panel. Knopf hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT26630
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Lessing Doris
In Pursuit of the English
NY: Simon and Schuster 1961. Hardcover. Very good. First American Edition. Offsetting to endpapers else a very good hardback in a rubbed and darkened jacket. <br/><br/> Simon and Schuster hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 35046
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LESSING Doris
In Pursuit of the English
NY: Simon & Schuster. 1961. First American Edition. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 705807
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Lessing Doris
In Pursuit of the English.
London: MacGibbon & Kee 1960. First edition of "one of the most authentic books ever written about the English" San Francisco Chronicle. Octavo original black cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. In swift barbed style in high hard farcical writing that is eruptively funny Doris Lessing records the joys and terrors of everyday life. The truth of her perception shines through the pages of a work that is a brilliantpiece of cultural interpretation an intriguing memoir and a thoroughly engaging read. "Eloquent.Wry and ribald.Lessing's impressive gifts for characterization and dialogue her skill as a raconteur and her tartly humorous style combine to make In Pursuit of the English readable and amusing" New York Times MacGibbon & Kee hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 2696
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LESSING Doris
In The Pursuit of the English
New York: Simon and Schuster 1960. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. An early book from this important British writer. A clean near fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket with a tear to the top and bottom of the front panel and some fading to the spine which also has a tiny chip at the base. Still a very nice copy. Simon and Schuster unknown books
Bookseller reference : 125255
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Lessing Doris
L'Eté avant la nuit
Bookseller reference : CEB44AG
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Lessing Doris
Le Cinquième Enfant
Bookseller reference : 64217VPRT
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Lessing Doris
Le Vent emporte nos paroles
Bookseller reference : FSEDB15JR
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Lessing Doris
Les Chats en particulier
Bookseller reference : CKE64SD
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Lessing Doris
love again
Harper Collins 1995 1995. F. Hardcover. First edition. Copyright page states "FIRST EDITION." Book fine. Housed in publisher's matching decorated slipcase which is near fine condition with slight rubbing at corners. Harper Collins, 1995 hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 003898 ISBN : 0002239361 9780002239363
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Lessing Doris
Love Again
New York: Harper Collins 1996. Advanced Reading Copy. Hardcover. Fine condition in a near fine slipcase. The slipcase has minor wear to the extremities. <br/><br/> Harper Collins hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 9014478 ISBN : 0060176873 9780060176877
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LESSING Doris
Love Again
New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1996. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Another well received novel from this important British writer. A clean and tight very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. HarperCollins Publishers unknown books
Bookseller reference : 112755 ISBN : 0060176873 9780060176877
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LESSING Doris
Love Again
NY: HarperCollins. 1995. The hardcover advance reading copy. Fingerprint on verso of front flyleaf; else fine in a fine pictorial slipcase. An unusual and elaborate format for an advance copy. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. HarperCollins hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 020388
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Lessing Doris
Love Again Signed
New York: HarperCollins 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Stated first U. S. edition. A novel by the author of Shikasta. 352 pp. A near fine copy in clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page. HarperCollins hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 23917
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Lessing Doris
Mara and Dann: An Adventure
HarperPerennial 1999. Very Good. Lessing Doris. Mara and Dann: An Adventure. New York: HarperPerennial 1999. 407pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with lightly soiled cover and subtly bumped edges. HarperPerennial paperback books
Bookseller reference : ULESMAR00HMR
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Lessing Doris
Mara and Dann: An Adventure
Harper Perennial 1999-12-22. PAPERBACK. Good. 006093056X Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Harper Perennial paperback books
Bookseller reference : SKU1035244 ISBN : 006093056X 9780060930561
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Lessing Doris
MARA AND DANN: AN ADVENTURE
New York: HarperFlamingo: 1999. 1999. Octavo boards. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #93143 HarperFlamingo: [1999]. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 93143 ISBN : 0002256029 9780002256025
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Lessing Doris
Mara and Dann; an Adventure
New York: HarperFlamingo 1999. 1st American Edition. viii 407p. map dj near fine. HarperFlamingo unknown books
Bookseller reference : 040904 ISBN : 0060182946 9780060182946
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Lessing Doris
Mariages entre les zones trois quatre et cinq
Seuil 1983 22x14x2cm. 1983. Broché jaquette. 292 pages. Très Bon Etat
Bookseller reference : 143822 ISBN : 2020064065
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Lessing Doris
Martha Quest
Plume 1970. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Minor general wear pages lightly toned. 1970 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 248 pp. "The heroine of this powerful searching novel is a passionate and intelligent young woman whose ideals are totally at odds with the life she observes around her. The daughter of provincial parents Martha Quest has been raised in a small-minded town in Central Africa - a community where hypocrisy intolerance and mindless traditionalism prevail. The book which traces Martha from adolescence through an ill-conceived marriage depicts her abrasive relationships with her elders her contemporaries and society as a whole. Martha Quest is a true child of this century. Her personal conflicts mirror the convulsions and aspirations of our time: her successful rebellion her liberation and its tragic failures and finally her despair transmuted into a relentless determination to understand life. Plume paperback books
Bookseller reference : 2296348 ISBN : 0452259681 9780452259683
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Lessing Doris
Martha Quest
HarperPerennial 1995. Very Good. Lessing Doris. Martha Quest. New York NY: HarperPerennial 1995. 333pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Slight moisture damage to top of last several pages. HarperPerennial paperback books
Bookseller reference : ULESMAR01FP ISBN : 0060976667 9780060976668
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Lessing Doris
Martha Quest A Proper Marriage A Ripple from the Storm Landlocked The Four-Gated City.
London: Michael Joseph 1952-1969. First editions of the author's Children of Violence Series. Octavo 5 volumes. Original cloth. Each of the five volumes are signed by Doris Lessing. Near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Martha Quest the first book in the "Children of Violence" series follows a young girl coming of age in British colonial South Africa just before World War II. The following books chronicle her experience as she grows through marriage and then motherhood. In 2007 Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. At 87 she was the oldest winner of the prize at the time. "Oh Christ!" She told reporters outside her home as she was returning from the grocery store "I've won all the prizes in Europe every bloody one so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush." Michael Joseph hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 796
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Lessing Doris
Martha Quest Signed
London: Michael Joseph 1952. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. First UK edition of the South Rhodesian author's uncommon second book. The first novel featuring her rebel character Martha Quest. A handsome near fine copy in green cloth binding in a sharp unclipped dustwrapper. The wrapper is mildly age spotted on the verso and a very small portion of the rear flap This copy has been SIGNED by the author on the title page. A terrific collector's copy. <br/><br/> Michael Joseph hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 23318
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Lessing Doris
Martha Quest.
London: Michael Joseph 1952. First edition of the author's first book in the Children of Violence series. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Name on the front pastedown near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some chips and wear. Jacket design by Peter Rudland. Martha Quest the first book in the "Children of Violence" series follows a young girl coming of age in British colonial South Africa just before World War II. The following books chronicle her experience as she grows through marriage and then motherhood. In 2007 Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. At 87 she was the oldest winner of the prize at the time. "Oh Christ!" She told reporters outside her home as she was returning from the grocery store "I've won all the prizes in Europe every bloody one so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush." Michael Joseph hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 16012
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LESSING Doris
Memoirs of a Survivor
Don Mills:: General Publishing. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0773600388 . A novel. First Canadian edition. Previous owner's name and date on front free endpaper else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . General Publishing, hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 65574 ISBN : 0773600388 9780773600386
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LESSING Doris
ORIGINAL EARLY PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED; offered with a TLS and the original mailing envelope
4-1/2 x 6 inch photograph taken by Hayrightson ca 1952. The photo is signed by the photographer in pencil and by Lessing on the flap. Included also is the TLS from Lessing dated October 26 1952 to Mr. H. A. Rappaport thanking him for his kind letter and presenting the photograph. Wikipedia: "Doris May Lessing CH née Tayler; 22 October 1919 - 17 November 2013 was a British novelist poet playwright librettist biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing 1950 the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence 1952-69 The Golden Notebook 1962 The Good Terrorist 1985 and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives 1979-1983.Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience who with scepticism fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.In 2001 Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008 The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 unknown books
Bookseller reference : 56779
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Lessing Doris
Particularly Cats
New York: Simon and Schuster 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing stated. Dust jacket is wrapped in a clear protective sleeve- jacket price not clipped. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
Bookseller reference : SKU1029417 ISBN : 067155476X 9780671554767
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Lessing Doris
Particularly Cats
New York: Simon & Schuster 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition in a near fine dust jacket. The dust jacket has minor wear to the extremities. <br/><br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 9014477
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LESSING Doris
Particularly Cats. and Rufus
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1991. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Alfred A. Knopf paperback books
Bookseller reference : 705798
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Lessing Doris
Real Thing: Stories and Sketches
Harper Perennial 1992. Very Good. Lessing Doris. Real Thing: Stories and Sketches. New York NY: Harper Perennial 1992. 214pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to edges and yellowing of pages. Harper Perennial paperback books
Bookseller reference : ULESREA01FP ISBN : 0060924179 9780060924171
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