LESSING, Doris.

In Pursuit of the English.

Stock Code 113225

London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1960

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First edition of the author's account of a year she spent in a seedy London boarding house soon after her arrival in England. 'One of the most authentic books ever written about the English' (San Francisco Chronicle).

First edition, first impression; 8vo; minor offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with the unclipped dust-jacket by Alexander Werner, spine and extremities a little sunned, mild soiling to rear panel, else very good.

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